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The SA National Editors' Forum says the Nat Nakasa Award ceremony will go ahead on Saturday with a virtual speech from Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono.
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has deployed soldiers to the SABC to protect journalists and not to interfere with its news operations, the public broadcaster said at the weekend.
City Press T The organisation has called for the immediate removal of the clause. "Extremely concerning" and "illegal" were the words which the SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) used the describe reports of communication interception and staff surveillance at the SABC. Following reports that employees' contracts contained a clause that allowed the broadcaster to monitor their communication, the forum said the practice should be "condemned in the strongest terms because it disregarded employees' rights". "As Sanef, we share the concern of newsroom staff members who say they are now inhibited ...
Born in Johannesburg in 1941, Paul Trewhela worked in underground journalism with Ruth First and edited the underground journal of MK, Freedom Fighter, during the Rivonia Trial. He was a political prisoner in Pretoria and the Johannesburg Fort as a member of the Communist Party in 1964-1967, separating from the SACP while in prison. In exile in Britain, he was co-editor with the late Baruch Hirson of Searchlight South Africa, banned in South Africa. Kebby Maphatsoe – former president of the now disbanded Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) – sent a letter to ANC offi...
SA Health Minister Zweli Mkhize is facing pressure to resign from position after being connected to a 'highly irregular' tendering scandal.