On Thursday the president honoured ​​South Africans and eminent foreign nationals with the highest award the country offers
As much as he was an editor for that era, he was also a journalist for all ages
Herbert Mabuza, Zuluboy Molefe and Raymond Louw passed away within days of each other
Media organisations say they had not known about a policy forcing journalists to request interviews with MPs through Parliament’s media office.
The ANC’s refusal to allow a public interest defence in the Protection of Information Bill has been denounced as "anti-democratic".
But council reiterates the importance of self-regulation to uphold standards.
The planned media appeals tribunal is once again high on the ruling party’s agenda .
Cosatu denied on Wednesday a report in the <em>Sowetan</em> that its secretary general, Zwelinzima Vavi, had "blasted Zuma" at a conference this week.
An ANCYL attack on the press ombud is aimed at boosting a bid by a faction of the ANC for a media appeals tribunal, the Press Council said on Tuesday.
Chairperson of the Press Council of SA, Raymond Louw, on Monday took issue with a call by the ANC and SACP for a statutory media appeals tribunal.
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/ 29 January 2010
The SA media’s concerns about Fifa restrictions on coverage of the World Cup have gone unheeded by Fifa for two years, Sanef’s Raymond Louw says.
The ban on free-to-air television broadcaster e.tv from covering the Zimbabwean polls detracts from that country’s claim to hold free and fair elections, the South Africa National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Tuesday. Zimbabwe’s state-owned Sunday Mail first reported the ban.
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/ 17 January 2008
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Thursday that it was outraged by the arrest of an Oudtshoorn journalist. The arrest took place on Tuesday. ”We are outraged at the arrest of the Kaapse Son‘s journalist, Hein Coetzee …,” said Sanef chairperson Raymond Louw.
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/ 15 October 2007
A lawyer for Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker has said they would hand themselves over to police in Cape Town this week, instead of waiting to be arrested for the alleged possession of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s medical records.
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/ 14 October 2007
Opposition parties and the South African National Editors’ Forum have expressed concern at reports of police plans to arrest Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and journalist Jocelyn Maker over the theft of Health Minister Manto-Tshabalala-Msimang’s medical records.
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/ 7 September 2007
COUNTERPOINT: Are black editors savages incapable of comprehending the intricacies of ”foreign” values such as press freedom? Thabo Leshilo reacts to Dali Mpofu’s withdrawal of the South African Broadcasting Corporation from the South African National Editors’ Forum.