As much as he was an editor for that era, he was also a journalist for all ages
Businessman takes newspaper to court over article that raised questions about his water distribution contract
The Right2Know Campaign will organise a protest at the SABC’s Johannesburg offices over the cancelling of current affairs talk show "The Big Debate".
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/ 11 February 2011
The DA’s blacklisting of a <em>Sowetan</em> journalist is "outrageous", the Freedom of Expression Institution (FXI) said on Friday.
The South Gauteng High Court has ordered Icasa to relaunch a probe into alleged political interference at the SABC in 2006.
The Freedom of Expression Institute is "gravely concerned" about seemingly increasing political interference in the South African media.
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/ 23 February 2010
FXI asks SA Law Reform Commission to investigate amending the CPA to introduce a "shield law" to protect confidential journalistic sources.
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/ 26 January 2010
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) on Tuesday called for the release of the state’s submission to the Ginwala commission.
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/ 23 January 2010
The FXI intends urgently asking the Law Reform Commission to review laws compelling journalists to disclose confidential sources.
Icasa’s complaints committee erred in finding it has no jurisdiction on a complaint about the SABC’s ”blacklist”, the FXI said on Tuesday.
The SABC is off the hook following a complaint by the Freedom of Expression Institute to Icasa over the SABC’s ”blacklisting” controversy.
A ruling on the presidential pardons process could have far-reaching implications and, some say, affect the president’s power to grant pardons.
The M&G will on Wednesday be at the Hilton hotel in Sandton to report on what were to have been closed hearings of the JSC.
The DA joined the call on Monday for the Judicial Service Commission’s hearings into the complaint against Judge John Hlophe to be open to the public.
The Freedom of Expression Institute is waiting for the JSC to say why its hearing on Judge John Hlophe will be closed.
A court challenge over the issuing of presidential pardons will be brought this week by a coalition of victim and civil society organisations.
The SABC on Wednesday refuted allegations that its group head of news, Snuki Zikalala, manipulated content for political purposes.
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/ 26 November 2008
The FXI has offered to assist suspended water researcher Dr Anthony Turton should he be summoned to a disciplinary hearing.
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/ 12 November 2008
The FXI has called on President Kgalema Motlanthe to make public the Ginwala commission’s report on suspended prosecutions head Vusi Pikoli.
Public hearings on the Protection of Information Bill leave M&G journalists sceptical about the ‘protection’ the South African public needs.