China has punished 197 people in a special campaign by police targeting online rumours about China’s stock market, the recent fatal explosions in Tianjin and “other key events”, state media reported. No details of the punishments were given, but according to the report, the crimes punished included claiming a man[…]
This is first of a two-part feature on media censorship and abuse in the Peoples Republic of China The unexpected detention of 10 South African nationals by authorities in China last month has seemingly rekindled public interest in the oppressive censorship policies of the Far Eastern communist state. The case[…]
Government’s decision to afford the media access to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead represents a move in the right direction for transparency and accountability, according to the Right 2 Know campaign’s, Dale McKinley. Journalists from a number of media houses were given an official tour of Zuma’s residence on Sunday,[…]
The chief firefighter of Umhlathuze and his firemen demonstrated to journalists on Sunday morning how a pool of water could be used to extinguish fires at the Nkandla homestead. General Mondli Bethuel Zuma showed journalists the “firepool”, which was covered by a safety net normally used to prevent drowning. News24’s Amanda[…]
Media24 CEO Esmare Weideman has apologised for Naspers’s role in apartheid. “We acknowledge complicity in a morally indefensible political regime and the hurtful way in which this played out in our newsrooms and boardrooms,” she said to applause at the 100 year celebration of Naspers and Die Burger newspaper in[…]
The SA National Editors’ Forum has expressed its shock over the refusal to allow the media to accompany a parliamentary committee visiting President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home on Wednesday. In a letter to Cedric Frolick, chairperson of the Nkandla ad hoc committee, Sanef said it believed it had a duty to[…]
A request by the media to visit President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla residence, with parliamentary committee members, has been denied. Media24 made a special request to the parliamentary ad hoc committee on Nkandla for permission to accompany it when it visits the president’s house on July 22. The committee’s inspection of[…]
The ANC believes in a free press but the local media is far too critical, a top official told editors on Saturday. It needs to do some introspection on its reporting, including “sticky” stories such as those around Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize said. The ruling[…]
Although public interest surrounding the Kenwyn teen who attempted to join the Islamic State (ISIS) has largely declined, the case has brought about concerns as to how much information the media should be allowed to divulge when reporting on stories involving children. The City Press has come under particular fire[…]
Media houses and other parties are asking the Western Cape High Court to find that a clause in Parliament’s broadcasting policy is unconstitutional and invalid because it does not allow the public to view all activities on the floor. Steven Budlender, for the applicants, told a full bench on Monday[…]
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