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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 over the reintroduction of a waiver clause. We were of the view that the removal of the waiver by the...

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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 with an iron fist, a move we strongly condemn. Tunisian police used lethal force against protester...

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 Morocco's sovereignty claim over the contested territory of Western Sahara. The decision was made shortly after the first official ceasefire violation in the territory by the Moroccan government in November 2020. Moving forward, the Bide...

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 The Sunday Times debacle of three sets of stories between 2011 and 2016: the SARS “rogue unit”,...