Guy Berger-CONMVERSE
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/ 30 April 2008

Role models for a free press

Saturday sees the world celebrate World Media Freedom Day. It’s because May 3 was adopted by the UN General Assembly in recognition of the historic Windhoek Declaration on press freedom, drawn up by African journalists back in 1991. This year, media people could take a leaf out of Zambian experience, where an alliance of actors is painstakingly working to promote a society where freedoms of expression and information will be entrenched in both law and society.