South Africa's media freedoms under threat?
Be careful what you photocopy... Plain clothed police in Swaziland are reported to have arrested a man for daring to copy a about a in the tiny kingdom.
Note the difference between the coy way it was reported in the local Swazi media, and the way South Africa's have been covering, and breaking the story.
But could South Africa's own media now be under threat? Journalists here are deeply about a proposed media tribunal being touted by the ruling African National Congress.
I was at an ANC briefing this week where the party's spokesman insisted the would not threaten the country's free press. But few or here
seem ready to be - concluding instead that a party increasingly weighed down by allegations of corruption is looking for a dodgy way to stem the flow of awkward headlines.
Too shrill, too knee-jerk? As in most countries, reporters here sometimes overstep the mark, and sometimes even take But if you read that last story, you'll see the newspaper involved policed itself pretty effectively. South Africa's papers are the envy of the continent, a feisty, vital bulwark against misrule. This country meddles with the media's independence at its peril.
Here, hopefully in support of that argument, are a few more "unpalatable" articles - about what looks like another looming scandal linked to , about the and about South Africa's
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