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Dr Iqbal Surve: It’s time to challenge self-appointed custodians of media freedom and ethics By Dr Iqbal Survé Share Cape Town - In 2016, Independent Media made a considered decision to withdraw from the Press Council of South Africa (PCSA). Our decision was a collective one and was not made at a whim or to undermine press freedom, freedom of expression or refusing to be held accountable for our actions. Independent Media’s withdrawal from the PCSA was a consequence of an impasse o...

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Tunisia’s protests and the slippery slope to censorship and repression 4 February 2021 | 4:32 am This year did not start on a good note for Tunisia. On the tenth anniversary of Tunisia’s revolution, January 14, hundreds of young Tunisians in different parts of the country, particularly marginalized and impoverished areas, took to the streets in protest against poverty and social and economic inequality, as well as police brutality. The government responded to Tunisia’s protests...

A Western Sahara Human Rights Agenda for the Biden Administration BY January 27, 2021 O n 11 December, Morocco became the latest Arab League country to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel, after the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan. The deal encourages cooperation between Israel and Morocco and upends thirty years of U.S. policy by granting U.S. recognition to Moroccos sovereignty claim over the contested territory of Western Sahara. The decision was made shortly after the first official ceasefi...

weekly newspaper. The long-awaited SANEF-commissioned report on media ethics and credibility has surfaced, with some far-reaching recommendations. But the report, which is more than 300 pages long, has one big flaw, or gaping hole, or lacuna, to use legal parlance, if you like: the Independent Newspapers group was hardly covered. This is the country’s biggest print company and it does not belong to the Press Council of South Africa. The impetus for the inquiry into ethics and credibility was...

WhatsApp On 26 January 2021 The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) and the Press Council hosted a briefing on the  Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) recently published Draft White Paper on Audio and Audio-visual Content Services Policy Framework: A New Vision for South Africa 2020. The briefing was arranged to assist journalism bodies and media houses to better understand the proposed regulation and to help them in responding to the invitation for public...

  The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is outraged by the insults that TV personality Somizi “Somgaga” Mhlongo directed at Sunday World acting editor, Kabelo Khumalo, and Julia Madibogo of City Press on Instagram, after they offered him his right of reply on separate stories they were writing last week. Madibogo of City Press approached the “Idols SA” judge for comment on allegations that he was divorcing his husband, Mohale Motaung-Mhlongo. Khumalo approached him for co...

Foto Verskaf The SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) is outraged by the insults that TV personality Somizi “Somgaga” Mhlongo directed at Sunday World acting editor Kabelo Khumalo and Julia Madibogo of City Press on Instagram after the two publications ran separate stories about his at the weekend. This is despite both journalists offering him his right of reply on the separate stories they were writing about him for their respective newspapers. Madibogo of City Press approached the Idols S...

All panellists wish to state that they have learnt in the course of this Inquiry that the current system of self- or co-regulation of the print and online media and by the broadcasting industry appears to be working well and to the benefit of the South African democracy. 18/1/2020 Few commercial sectors engaged in the level of introspection and self-regulation as the Fourth Estate and the two and a half year SANEF commission of inquiry into ethical challenges facing South African journalism sho...

SANEF CALLS FOR ACTION AGAINST SOMIZI MHLONGO By Quincy Mahlangu THE South Africas Editors Forum (Sanef) is calling for action against Somizi Mhlongo. This follows after talented media personality responded negatively to two journalists that approached him for a comment on the stories they were working on.  He then further took screenshots of the conversations with the journalists and shared them on social media, and told his followers to call them so they can feel...