Speech presented by Joe Latakgomo at Media Freedom Day event
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
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Speech by Professor Kader Asmal to mark SANEF’s Commemoration of Black Wednesday at the Universit
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’.
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Opening remarks by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe at the meeting of the Government and the South African National Editors Forum - 15 October 2010, Magaliesburg
Read more…Protest at police detaining photographers
The SA National Editors’ Forum is shocked at the arrest of three press photographers and the manhandling of one of them yesterday by police at Musina, Limpopo, and their being detained for 45 minutes, preventing them from carrying out their duties to take pictures of 11 people accused of being members of a rhino poaching syndicate
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