The streaming service will now rate its films according to violence, sexual content, nudity, prejudice and age restrictions, in line with South Africa’s regulations
The Film and Publications Board has selectively released a contentious draft policy for original content distributed online in South Africa.
The Film and Publications Board will wait til end of August to decide on contesting the Appeal Committee decision to unban the film, Of Good Report.
The first movie to be banned since 1994 is the victim of a vague law driven by ‘moral panic’, writes Shaun de Waal.
While meeting over "The Spear", the Film and Publications Board has astonishingly seemed to imply it is obliged to suppress political criticism.
The Goodman Gallery’s lawyer says there is no point to the Film and Publication Board classifying "The Spear" since it has been defaced and removed.
The Film and Publications Board had a late night scratching their heads over what to do about the artwork showing the president in a state of undress.
The African National Congress Women’s League has expressed outrage, anger and disgust at the gang rape of a 17-year-old Soweto teenager.
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/ 13 September 2008
A movie about an intersex youngster who falls in love has been banned by the Film and Publication Board on the grounds that it amounts to child porn.
”I am shocked to learn from ‘A democracy of untouchables’ (February 8) that Independent Communications Authority of South Africa councillor Robert Nkuna was involved in drafting the African National Congress’s proposal for a print-media tribunal,” writes the Democratic Alliance’s Dene Smuts.