Results for media laws The constitution says that every person has the 'right to know', the right to access and to share information and yet, according to the Right2Know campaign, South Africans live in a society of secrets. To assist in this transparency, the organisation is calling on communities and organisation to list a Top 10 Secrets list. 17 Mar 2011 08:58 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] The fundamental reason that many African governments ban and harass the media has more to do with personal connotations than other issues, Kenya's Henry Maina, director of Article 19 Eastern Africa, told delegates at the two-day Regulations and Rights media conference last week in Johannesburg. 16 Mar 2011 10:22 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] There is some substantiated regulation of what the media can do and what it cannot do, but the balance must be struck between what the law has prescribed and freedom of expression, Prof Dario Milo, Wits University media law visiting professor and Webber & Wentzel partner, said last week in Johannesburg at the two-day Regulations and Rights media conference. 15 Mar 2011 14:01 |
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