The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) notes with concern the complaints lodged by political journalists about the latest attempts by the ANCYL to intimidate and blackmail the media by digging into the private affairs of certain journalists. In a democracy this is an unsavoury and dangerous act.
Read more… The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has decided to apply to be an amicus curiae in The Citizen’s Constitutional Court challenge against the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling in McBride vs Citizen.
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National Police Commissioner, Bheki Cele, and a delegation from the SA National Editors’ Forum met in Johannesburg today to discuss a variety of “operational communication issues” including police Standing Orders 156 and aspects of Section 205.
Read more…The SA National Editors’ Forum is concerned at a new clamp down on foreign and local media in Zimbabwe despite promises by the government that the country’s repressive media laws were under review and would be amended to restore media freedom.
Read more…It is a privilege and an honour to have been asked to address members of the press, in particular, those affiliated with such a distinguished organisation as SANEF. The American founding father Thomas Jefferson famously quipped, “If it were left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
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