Now is the time for journalists to act, writes <b>Glenda Daniels</b>.
But council reiterates the importance of self-regulation to uphold standards.
MEDIA FREEDOM: The ANC’s backtracking on essential concessions in the Bill is galvanising activists like never before.
President Mutharika faces further protests and a loss of desperately needed aid if he fails to address Malawi’s problems, civil groups and the US say.
The US has withheld $350-million in funding to Malawi following the death of 19 people during two days of public protests last week.
Whistle-blowers and journalists can still be criminalised, even though concessions have been made to the Secrecy Bill.
Media freedom in South Africa has decreased markedly since 2008, a watchdog says.
Sanef is setting up an "eminent persons’ panel" to investigate ways to strengthen and reform the print media’s self-regulation system.
What Jimmy Manyi’s ultimate fantasy could look like
A three-pronged attack by the government comes as self-scrutiny increases.
The planned media appeals tribunal is once again high on the ruling party’s agenda .
COMMENT: The organisation that liberated us from
apartheid now wishes to oppress us.
Broadcaster must now air prime-time apology.
A 2009 report shows collisions climbed sharply, compelling more stringent safety standards.
Sticking points prevent committee from pushing legislation through in its current state
Judgment reserved in Jacob Zuma’s last attempt to conceal judges’ assessment of 2002 election
The Presidency has not been able to prove a report on the 2002 Zimbabwe elections must stay secret, counsel for the M&G told the Constitutional Court.
In a surprise move this week Cricket South Africa president Mtutuzeli Nyoka won more than his reinstatement.
Samwu said on Wednesday that it had accepted an offer to end a refuse-worker strike, but that Pikitup management did not sign the agreement.
What do you do when you have less than three months before the next "final" deadline for the controversial Protection of Information Bill?
The very high levels of violence in jails has been highlighted by the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons.
Video surveillance footage shot in the new Kimberley prison appears to show prison security personnel assaulting prisoners.
The Right2Know campaign is compiling a list of South Africa’s top 10 secrets.
The <i>New Age</i> newspaper is full of surprises, as I discovered during a visit to the paper this week.
Staff ‘fleece’ Metrorail in online scam; meanwhile, in the Eastern Cape, government cannot get its trains back on track.
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/ 25 February 2011
President Jacob Zuma is once again pursuing his lawsuit against cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro for the "rape of justice" cartoon published two years ago.
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/ 18 February 2011
Small NGO takes on giant multinational over its attempts to control SA seed market
The UN’s Frank LaRue said in Johannesburg this week that there can be no democracy without the internet as well as no development.
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/ 11 February 2011
Group opposed to ‘secrecy’ Bill becomes a formally constituted organisation
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/ 14 January 2011
Mail & Guardian photographer Oupa Nkosi is facing trial for "assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm"
Doing a PhD was nowhere in journalist Glenda Daniels’s ‘life plan’ — but now she’s hooked.
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/ 5 November 2007
Recently, over lunch with friends from overseas, a long discussion ensued about the behaviour and discipline – or lack thereof – of children these days. Far from being fuddy-duddies, the pregnant couple in their mid-30s said they would not raise their offspring in England, because the rudeness and lack of discipline among children there was horrific.