Outdated secrecy laws stifle the press in South Africa
April 27, 2015 11:01 AM ET
Nelson Mandela regularly harangued the media once he'd been freed after 27 years of imprisonment by South Africa's apartheid government. He would call individual journalists when he liked or disliked something they had written or when he wanted to...
CPJ urges respect for media freedom in South Africa
July 14, 2014 2:35 PM ET
Dear Hlaudi Motsoeneng: The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide, is writing to express its concern at recent anti-press statements you made at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Mandela's Legacy of Media Freedom Stands Its Ground
February 12, 2014 2:11 AM ET
How robust are the institutional safeguards that underpin Nelson Mandela's vision of a strong and independent South African media? By Sue Valentine Nelson Mandela, pictured in May 2011, sometimes accused critical black journalists of disloyalty during his presidency. (AFP/Elmond Jiyane)...
In Zambia, harassment of Watchdog site continues
July 17, 2013 12:29 PM ET
Cape Town, South Africa, July 17, 2013--Zambian authorities should stop their ongoing harassment of the Zambian Watchdog, a site that reports on alleged government corruption, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police arrested another journalist they accused of contributing...
Criminal probe targets AP, Reuters cameras on Mandela
December 16, 2011 4:10 PM ET
New York, December 16, 2011--South African authorities announced on Thursday the launch of a criminal probe against international news agencies The Associated Press and Reuters for installing cameras outside the home of anti-Apartheid figure Nelson Mandela, according to news...