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By Graeme AddisonLumko Mtimde, CEO of the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), must be feeling horribly isolated now that virtually all media professional bodies and a broad consensus of civil society organisations have condemned the proposed media tribunal...
Zizi Kodwa, President Jacob Zuma's special adviser on communications, says the South African media is in denial about its own shortcomings. The real threat to SA media freedom would not be the proposed Media Appeals Tribunal but the media's denial that it had serious...
01 September 2010Oppose media censorship! Oppose state authoritarianism! Not in our names! Democratise the media! The Conference of the Democratic Left (CoDL) condemns government and ANC attempts to curb media freedom in South Africa, made manifest in the...
By Butjwana Seokoma Former South African President, Nelson Mandela, reminded us in 1994 that: “A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy.” 16 years into democracy, opposition parties, civil society, activists and other...
By Zizi Kodwa The Big Read: The fundamental pillar of any open society built on democratic principles is the extent to which debates are held and are allowed to take place without fear or prejudice. In a society that allows a plurality of views, debate is always...
The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) statement on the threats to Press Freedom notes that - as a result of ANC policy - South Africa's media is highly concentrated and services a small section of the population. It also highlights the need to defend...
South Africa is a complex democracy, more specifically a neo-liberal democracy. Media transformation is expected to be driven by the market in accordance with neo-liberal policies. However, markets have failed over and over again to drive transformation. This raises a...
By Jane Duncan2 August 2010The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has just released a document on the media for its National General Council (NGC) meeting, scheduled for September. The document, entitled 'Media transformation, ownership and diversity', claims to...