The South African National Editors’ Forum is shocked and alarmed at the granting by the North Gauteng High Court of an urgent interdict by the police against the Sunday Independent last night (Friday).
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WHEN THE THEN DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, MR NELSON MANDELA, ADDRESSED THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE IN KYOTO, JAPAN, ON 22 APRIL 1991, HE DECLARED
Read more…Acclaimed and award-winning author Salman Rushdie, who is no stranger to the controversies that often accompany debates on freedom of expression and free speech, had the following to say with respect to free speech: ‘Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ballgame. Free speech is life itself’.
We come from a past where those in our society who suffered banning orders, who fought an oppressive state machinery that sought to violently crush the very essence of freedom of expression, belief and opinion understand all too well that ‘free speech is life itself’.
Read more…Opening remarks by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe at the meeting of the Government and the South African National Editors Forum - 15 October 2010, Magaliesburg
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