Media freedom
[Source: Business Day by Pri Hollis.]
The department of trade and industry’s reckless pursuit of the Copyright Amendment Bill will have disastrous consequences for SA creative industries. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Ismail Lagardien.]
With the election eight weeks away, the EFF appears to have made something of a pincer movement on the ANC. They have prodded the ANC on policy, and made it more inviting for disaffected ANC members to join their ranks. In the meantime, the ANC seem to have caved in to two of the EFF’s main policy demands – that the Constitution be changed to effect land expropriation with compensation, and that the South African Reserve Bank be nationalised. Read more
[Source: Politicsweb by William Saunderson-Meyer.]
The general election is creeping closer, now exactly two months away. But for the Economic Freedom Fighters it’s been just another mundane week in politics, dispensing the usual menace and mayhem. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Rebecca Davis.]
Billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe took the unusual step this week of calling a press conference to deny rumours that he would benefit in any way from Eskom’s asset sale. Read more