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Courts are being used to silence journalists and activists

April 2, 2025
Companies and officials are using legal measures meant for domestic violence victims to gag reporters……

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It’s grossly dishonest to claim South Africa has more race laws than ever before

March 24, 2025
The claim that South Africa has 142 active racial laws on the statute books is seriously misleading, containing many laws that can only be s……

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Protections orders are being weaponised to gag those exposing injustice

March 24, 2025
If left unchecked, the use of protection orders as gagging orders will erode press freedom and civic activism and weaken the credibility of ……

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Speak Up, SA

#SpeakUpSA Competition 2025

March 5, 2025
The Campaign for Freedom of Expression (CFE) and the School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) at Rhodes University invite students and s……

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The new censorship: Labelling opponents as fascists is stifling debate in SA

October 29, 2024
Three recent events should give pause to those concerned with free speech in South Africa…….

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Herman Botha

On farmers, baboons, animal welfare and doxing

October 14, 2024
How far can you go in exposing wrongdoing on social media? How much privacy are you entitled to? ……

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Social media giants silent on how they will deal with threats to election integrity

May 23, 2024
How can it be, one has to ask that the tech giants operate in this country earn significant profits from advertisers here hold all our data…….

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Daily Maverick

We may not like David Teeger’s support of the Israeli army, but we should not persecute him for expressing this

December 1, 2023
Whether or not you agree with Proteas U19 captain David Teeger’s view’s on Israel, we must protect his right to express those views, argues Anton Harber…….

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