IMMEDIATELY after Icasa’s watershed media conference on the SABC’s ban on footage of violent protest, conflicting reports emerged of exactly what Icasa had said. According to some reports Icasa “recommended” the SABC lift its ban, others said the broadcaster was...
CONFIRMATION this week that 75 year old former South African tennis star Bob Hewitt must serve time in prison for rape and sexual assault was hailed as a victory for the women involved. Their courage in speaking about events of …Share this:Click to share on...
FIVE judges of Lesotho’s highest court have laid it on the line for no less a person than the head of that same court: not even an exalted judicial position shields you from facing prosecution or an impeachment tribunal, they …Share this:Click to share on...
Country living is a dream for many city people, but as Canadian journalist Douglas Mason has discovered, it may easily become a nightmare. On his way to Afghanistan some years ago, he spent Christmas Eve at a guest farm in …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
NO doubt about it, the government has sustained a serious moral and legal setback with today’s judgment from the Supreme Court of Appeal slamming Pretoria’s failure to arrest and hand over Sudan’s President Al Bashir to the International Criminal Court …Share...
IMAGINE this picture: the President of South Africa announces the names of a new crop of judges he has just appointed. Not unusual, you might say. But suppose this is the first the public has heard about the appointments. Suppose …Share this:Click to share on...
