Media

By Glenda Daniels I wonder if the media appeals tribunal the ANC wants so badly will happen. Raymond Louw, deputy chairperson of the media freedom committee at the South African National Editor’s Forum (Sanef), who I interviewed on Wednesday reflected that it would, but in about a year’s time, after an investigation into its feasibility […]

I want to make a small contribution to the discussion around the (im)probability of Trevor Manuel being appointed as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Parenthetically, this piece was originally written a week ago and was sent back to me last Friday for shortening. So, things might have happened in the meantime which […]

In my post of May 4 I made reference to social problems in the US as a way to suggest that SA’s problems were not unique and that it would be useful to have some perspective on social crises. This should not be seen as an apology for whatever actual or perceived crises there may […]

I let this blog space go dormant for more than a year. I let it “rest” for two main reasons. First, because I felt increasingly uncomfortable engaging in discussions on what was happening in South Africa, least of all because I have not lived in the country since August 1997. Second, because I have been […]

Ahead of May 3 World Press Freedom Day, a new study of 37 countries gives the state of play for internet freedom in six African states. Here’s the pecking order: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zimbabwe … and Ethiopia. (Yes, there’s a place even more restrictive than Zimbabwe.) Although South Africa’s internet freedom leads, our […]