Laws needed to stop SLAPPs against journalists
Parts of the private sector are increasingly using the courts to silence investigative reporting

Campaign For Free Expression Takes to Tshepong Hospital to Show Solidarity with Health Workers
By Hanifa Manda Part of the group of health workers displays their wrists spotting campaign wristbands inscribed with the hashtag #IStandWithHealthWorkers Following the release of our research report, “Silent Killer:
A law we neither need nor want
By Anton Harber Criticism of government sometimes takes on a racial tone, whether intended or not. Certainly, the ANC has often felt that some of its critics are motivated by
ANC wrings benefits from absence of SABC board
Sometimes it is the smaller things that tell you the most. Sometimes you understand what is happening in this country not by the big national picture, but in the commonplace
Between the powerless and the mob: the uses of woke and cancel culture
There can be few phrases more abused – and weaponized – than “woke” and “cancel culture”.
Reward whistleblowers and investigative reporters for uncovering corruption
A few recent news stories deserve to be highlighted, in case people missed them or their significance.