Newspaper ordered to publish an apology and correction for inaccurate claims
Law | 6 December 2024
News24 complained about a “storified press statement” issued by Sekunjalo, majority shareholder in Independent
Law | 5 December 2024
We review the complaint of Hassen Lorgat against The Citizen
Law | 4 December 2024
The court will hear two applications relating to copyright and the rights of blind people to convert works into accessible formats
Law | 23 October 2024
Attacks were also launched on the integrity of our reporter
News | 17 October 2024
IOL says it will not apologise and is applying for leave to appeal the ruling
Law | 3 September 2024
Journalists need to be careful when repeating previously published allegations
Law | 2 September 2024
The ruling raises serious questions about the ethics on Sunday Independent and other Independent Media publications
Law | 12 August 2024
Opinion may be “extreme, unjust, unbalanced, exaggerated and prejudiced” but it must be “honestly-held … without malice, on a matter of public interest on facts that are true”.
Law | 18 June 2024
The Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Right2Protest hope legislators will adopt it to protect journalists and activists
News | 12 June 2024
A ruling by the Press Ombud has helped clarify clauses about fact versus opinion in the Press Code
Law | 9 May 2024
Editors may feel that rulings like this tie their hands when it comes to punchy headlines
Law | 29 April 2024
A teacher at Vergenoegd Primary in Delft, Cape Town, says they discovered that the bursar office missed payments from August 2023
News | 25 March 2024
Four-part Showmax series on the Facebook rapist starts Friday
Law | 15 March 2024
BNN Breaking no longer appears high up in search results
Brief | 12 March 2024
By Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl
Analysis | 6 March 2024