To have a private company make decisions that affect the media via an opaque process is to invite a legal, ethical and practical disaster.
Three editors’ forums have criticised the arbitrary arrests of Swazi magazine editor Bhekithemba Makhubu and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko.
Muslim leaders have demanded action to stop religious insults in a challenge to Barack Obama’s defence of freedom of expression at a UN meeting.
In a discussion that ranged from the hilarious to the depressing, Zapiro and other heavyweights discussed satire and the limits of freedom of expression.
President Jacob Zuma says the government will defend the right of its people to express themselves in any manner, including protest action.
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/ 10 February 2012
South Africans can participate in the fight for freedom of expresson at the Constitutional Conference.
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/ 23 September 2011
Freedom of expression has suffered two body blows in the Protection of State Information Bill and the Malema Equality Court ruling.
The Zambian courts are defying the regional and international guarantees of freedom of expression that Zambia has signed.
Julius Malema’s "struggle song" leads to another charge of hate speech, in the same week that the Equality Court found him guilty of the same charge.
A South African has been fired and two others suspended for posting Facebook updates considered unacceptable by the their companies.
Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure will lead a concert aimed at raising awareness on Zimbabwe at Bassline. Precy Zvomuya spoke to him.
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/ 9 September 2008
It seems a picture really is worth a thousand words after cartoonist Zapiro unleashed a storm of controversy this week.
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/ 1 September 2008
We must assert the truth in a rational manner and refrain from using exaggerated language in so doing.