Independent Media withdraws from the biased Press Council

Independent Media and Independent Online (IOL) have formally been withdrawn from the Press Council of South Africa (PCSA).The group announced that it had pulled out with immediate effect....

Sanef linked Press ombudsman sides with DA 'racist' who wanted to 'kill the k*ffirs'

Renaldo Gouws is not to everyone's liking. Like Marmite. So when IOL published a video clip in which he is seen and heard spewing racist hate speech, supporters and detractors of the controversial pol...

Confronting the scourge of persecution by prosecution

One of the most topical debates in national discourses in Zimbabwe over the last week has been around mechanisms to address and regulate the dissemination of false information and disinformation, in l...

Botswana sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media

Africa's model democracy is sliding into a monocracy that is punishing the media a ...

CPJ urges South African authorities to drop secrecy bill

New York - South African authorities should heed widespread calls to drop a "secrecy bill" that opponents say will criminalize whistle-blowing and stifle investigative journalism, the Committee to Pro...