Tag archives for Freedom of Press
Freedom Day: The Price of Eternal Vigilance is Still to be Paid
The American classical liberal and president Thomas Jefferson said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Freedom is not a fixed state of affairs, and we can be robbed…
HuffPost SA Editor-in-Chief Verashni Pillay Resigns
Tonight, 22 April 2017, Huffington Post South Africa’s Editor-in-Chief, Verashni Pillay, resigned, according to News24. This comes after a statement by the Press Ombud, who condemned the editorial actions of…
Editorial: Don’t be Distracted – Media, not Roodt, are to Blame
South Africa’s left-wing media has done it again. It has managed to divert attention away from its own ethical bankruptcy onto a scapegoat individual. That individual - who, oddly enough,…
South Africans Must Stop The Hate Speech Bill
On 31 January 2017 the first opportunity for public comment on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill finally came to an end. People who are…
Time To Put The SA Back In the SABC
In 2016 the airwaves, newspapers, and televisions screens were filled with news about the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) . It seems quite ironic that South Africa’s biggest news broadcaster…