Freedom of Expression

Ombud finds Sunday World breached press code in AfriForum article

Newspaper ordered to publish an apology and correction for inaccurate claims

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Law | 6 December 2024

Ombud finds IOL breached press code

News24 complained about a “storified press statement” issued by Sekunjalo, majority shareholder in Independent

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Law | 5 December 2024

Press ombud dismisses complaint over “Cuban doctors took my job” article

We review the complaint of Hassen Lorgat against The Citizen

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Law | 4 December 2024

Concourt showdown on copyright bill

The court will hear two applications relating to copyright and the rights of blind people to convert works into accessible formats

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Law | 23 October 2024

Lottery spent over R1-million on lawyers to stop GroundUp exposing corruption

Attacks were also launched on the integrity of our reporter

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News | 17 October 2024

Ombud finds IOL broke press code on Renaldo Gouws video

IOL says it will not apologise and is applying for leave to appeal the ruling

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Law | 3 September 2024

Judge Lindiwe Rusi vs City Press: a look at the Press Ombud’s ruling

Journalists need to be careful when repeating previously published allegations

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Law | 2 September 2024

Understanding the hard-hitting Press Council ruling against Iqbal Survé’s newspapers

The ruling raises serious questions about the ethics on Sunday Independent and other Independent Media publications

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Law | 12 August 2024

News24 vs Sunday Independent: a look at the Press Ombud’s ruling

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”.

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Law | 18 June 2024

New law proposed to stop SLAPP suits

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Right2Protest hope legislators will adopt it to protect journalists and activists

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News | 12 June 2024

Western Cape separatist loses complaint against Daily Maverick

A ruling by the Press Ombud has helped clarify clauses about fact versus opinion in the Press Code

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Law | 9 May 2024

Kaizer Chiefs vs Sunday World: Press Ombud rules against headline

Editors may feel that rulings like this tie their hands when it comes to punchy headlines

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Law | 29 April 2024

Cape Town school in the dark because it owes thousands to Eskom

A teacher at Vergenoegd Primary in Delft, Cape Town, says they discovered that the bursar office missed payments from August 2023

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News | 25 March 2024

Bester and Magudumana fail to stop TV documentary

Four-part Showmax series on the Facebook rapist starts Friday

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Law | 15 March 2024

Google moves against notorious spam news website

BNN Breaking no longer appears high up in search results

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Brief | 12 March 2024