Apr 11, 2016 | Media Law
(Cartoon by Zapiro. All rights reserved – For more Zapiro cartoons visit www.zapiro.com) Increasing restrictions on free speech – in the name of “national security” – are occurring across Africa. Journalists and civil society should investigate and mount...
Apr 11, 2016 | Media Law
The African Platform on Access to Information (APAI) declaration was adopted at the Pan African Conference on Access to Information (PACAI), held in Cape Town, South Africa. Here are the key principles: Fundamental Right Accessible to Everyone Access to information is...
Apr 11, 2016 | Media Law
South Africa’s access to information legislation is regarded as among the best in the world. But is it really working in the struggle for social justice? I remember one cold night in a community hall in a working-class township of Cape Town. A group of about 50...
Apr 11, 2016 | Media Law
Free media in Africa faces many challenges. Those include colonial-era laws that restrict free thought and expression, and which are holding the continent back. In the heady early 1990s in Africa, it seemed like every country on the continent was re-examining its...
