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News Media Freedom Curb in South Africa

  • 31-08-2010 3:24pm
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    Lenny Lovett
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    How times change! Twenty years ago some of us were involved in campaigning against Government censorship of the media in South Africa. The Apartheid Government were subsequently replaced by the predominately black ANC led by Nelson Mandela. The world media were (rightly) widely praised at the time for highlighting the injustices of the Apartheid Government. However times have changed and the long serving ANC Government are now looking to renew the media censorship laws that were in place during Apartheid and to censor information broadcast and published in the country. More information here:
    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/south-africa/100824/press-freedom-under-threat

    Already journalists have been arrested for putting certain stories in the public domain. This goes against all the principals fought for by Mandela et al.

    An online petition will be up shortly and I will put the details here and would appreciate it if anyone who supports free speech and freedom of information would support it.
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