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In the media

24 July 2023

Lady R – the Presidency’s response


16 June 2023

CFE in court to prevent silencing of investigative journalists


News24

24 May 2023

A law we neither need nor want


Classic Business

30 March 2023

Health officials are using public service rules to stifle dissent, report finds.


HRPulse

24 March 2023

Health officials use public service rules to stifle dissent among employees


SAFM Sunrise

24 March 2023

Campaign for Free Expression launches Silent Killer report about how the public service regulations silence the voices of public health workers


Business Live

23 March 2023

Health officials are using public service rules to stifle dissent, report finds


Bhekisisa

23 March 2023

How the health department bends the law to gag health workers – report


702 podcasts

March 2023

Campaign for Free Expression reveals that health workers are silenced and bullied


Swaziland News

22 March 2023

Campaign for Free Expression (CFE) condemns assassination threats, intimidation on journalists in Eswatini


Daily Maverick

16 March 2023

Shut up and toe the line – the daily lot of a South African public health worker


News24

9 February 2023

Eswatini newspaper silenced from printing terror suspects’ confessions implicating leaders


Daily Maverick

6 February 2023

Zanu-PF passes anti-NGO bill, killing last line of defence for human rights in Zimbabwe


Daily Maverick

3 February 2023

Thulani Maseko’s murder exposes the political wrangling hobbling Eswatini’s march to democracy


Eswatini Observer

24 October 2022

‘Silence the guns, let us all talk’


ENCA

10 October 2022

#eNCA speaks to Anton Harber about former President Jacob Zuma’s private prosecution journalist of Karyn Maghan and prosecutor Billy Downer.


DAILY MAVERICK

4 July 2022
eSwatini declares editor Zweli Martin Dlamini and Swaziland News as “terrorists” 


DAILY MAVERICK

16 June 2022
16 June: So what, when the youth cannot freely express themselves 46 years later? 
By Margaret Zulu


VOICE OF THE CAPE

29 May 2022
Anton Harber is interviewed on Voice of the Cape radio station, making a plea for more reportage and less opinion in our news coverage.


26 April 2022
On Freedom Day, it is worth remembering that our freedom of expression is both valuable and vulnerable. We cannot take it for granted, argues Anton Harber.


THE TIMES, MALAWI

11 April 2022
South African organisation joins call for free press in Malawi


21 March 2022
New Zim law threatens Zim civil society


KYKNET

8 March 2022
CFE director Anton Harber interviewed about Russian Today on Kyknet Verslag


IOL

3 February 2022
Southern Africa media organisations to send delegation to Botswana to protest new Bill which would threaten the country’s media freedom


SABC NEWS

7 December 2021
SANEF and CFE call for disciplinary action against SABC News Head to be open process


NEWS24

7 December 2021
Calls for SABC head of news Phatiswa Magopeni’s disciplinary hearing to be open to the media


BIZCOMMUNITY

7 December 2021
Sanef and the CFE fight SABC’s closed door hearing of Magopeni

THE CONVERSATION

4 November 2021
Why the handling of a false South African news report about 10 babies has set off alarm bells

BroadcastingBUSINESS LIVE

8 November 2021

Submissions on the bill test business’ commitment to stopping corruption, writes Anton Harber and Ben Winks.

Download: Submissions on the Companies Amendment Bill


NEWS 24

6 October 2021
Anton Harber | Hate Speech Bill: Sharp scalpel needed to deal with hate speech not a blunt chainsaw4