Monday, April 23, 2007

SABC prevents staff access to SW Radio Africa website

Our colleagues at SW Radio Africa have alerted us to their discovery that journalists at the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) are denied access to SW Radio Africa’s website for news on Zimbabwe.

SW Radio Africa says “The South African government’s interference in the media is the subject of growing concern amongst journalists in the country. The fact that the SW Radio Africa website is blocked not only attests to the extent that reporting on Zimbabwe is controlled but also puts into doubt [SA President] Thabo Mbeki’s suitability as an arbitrator in the Zimbabwe crisis.”
Read the whole story on the SW Radio Africa website
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)