Tag: press

The Media Development and Diversity Agency, in partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, will be hosting a seminar on Tuesday, 5 May 2015, in Johannesburg, in celebration of the ideals of World Press Freedom Day.

Volkswagen South Africa has begun building a new press shop at its Uitenhage plant in the Eastern Cape. The project is set to cost R500-million (US$69-million) and will comply with the company’s green initiative.
• VW SA wins multibillion contract

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has thrown his considerable moral weight behind the Declaration of Table Mountain, the media’s call to African leaders to support a free press on the continent.
• Victory for press freedom

World football body Fifa has reassured South African and international media that the purpose of its terms and conditions for accreditation for reporting on the 2010 World Cup “is not, and has never been, to restrict press freedom”.
• SA celebrates media freedom

Press freedom has won the day in Cape Town. Newspaper editor Gasant Abarder, who refused to compromise his ethics by testifying in a defamation case, has escaped prosecution after the case was settled out of court.