13. Outdated Secrecy Laws Stifle the Press in South Africa
By Ferial Haffajee
A woman from the Right2Know campaign protests with her child against the Protection of State Information Bill, which would enable the prosecution of whistleblowers, public advocates, and journalists who reveal corruption, in Cape Town on April 25, 2013.
Source: AP/Schalk van Zuydam
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 advance a political lobby.
He once ...
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