World Press Freedom Day: We should not give in to cowardice – Mavuso Msimang By Tessa Knight awildknight
invited representatives from the party to attend the event.Question: What happens when a politician, a playwright, a journalist and representatives from all walks of life meet in a church?Such was the outcome of a World Press Freedom Day event hosted by, the South African National Editors Forum and Media Monitoring Africa on Friday 3 May, officially recognised as the day the world honours the World Press Freedom.
In a moving and poetic speech, Van Graan told audience members that “when truth defenders need bodyguards then democracy has not been won.” Throughout the two-hour event, each of the ten speakers highlighted the need for a free press, particularly in a country such as South Africa, with its history of censorship and propaganda.
Daily Maverick Assistant Editor Marianne Thamm hosts a panel with SANEF’s Sam Mkokeli, Janet Love from the Independent Electoral Commission and Advocate André Hurtley Gaum, from the Human Rights Commission at the World Press Freedom Day event hosted by Daily Maverick and The South African National Editors’ Forum at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, 3 May 2019.
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