MOVES are afoot by state-sponsored news channel Russia Today (RT) to set up a regional hub in South Africa. Despite our pacifist constitution expressly outlawing 'propaganda for war' under article 16, (2) (a) — limitations on press freedom w...
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Media24 accused of predator tactics
An investigation has found that Media24 engaged in exclusionary pricing conduct through Goudveld Forum whereby its advertising rates were priced below cost. It further, found that this was intended to exclude competitors and to bolster Media24’s reputation as an aggressive competitor in order to...
SA Press needs a complete makeover.
NEWS that the ANC government is considering the creation of a media tribunal "that will investigate the media's self-regulatory dispensation, safeguard all citizens' rights and promote ‘real' media freedom and diversity," comes as no surprise. After years of market fundamentalism "to retain the o...
MEDIA APARTHEID CAMPAIGN: censorship saga continues.
THE Alternative Media Forum (Altmedia-F) is contemplating a series of protests to mark the anniversary of the controversial expunging of an article about a well-known Mocambican immigrant guitarist and the suppression of comments made by a local jazz musician, from community press in Cape Town ....
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