Six Tanzanian journalists detained in Ngorongoro conservation area
Six Tanzanian journalists were detained and questioned for at least three hours inside the state-run Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) on February 3, 2022. The journalists, Amina Ngahewa (Mwananchi Digital),
I was jailed for doing journalism – and the nightmare is not over
We were caged overnight at Bulawayo Central Police Station and then charged for allegedly infringing upon Section 36 of the country’s Immigration Act. The charge was that I had lied
Seychelles makes impressive media-friendly leap
The Seychelles knocked Namibia off its best-in-Africa perch this month. Not as a tourism destination but as a place hospitable to journalists (though these might be related).
Will Twitter owner Elon Musk put profit over public service, as has Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg?
Two billionaires now control the four biggest global social media platforms, the “de facto public town square … [and] bedrock of our democracy ”, in Elon Musk’s words.
Media award highlights vital role of SA’s diggers and sleuths
The Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting is an annual ray of sunshine in our often foggy journalism world.
Digital broadcasting: are we there yet?
For many years the Ministry and Department of Communications have been mocked for the failure to meet the 2015 international deadline to convert terrestrial broadcasting to digital.