High court decision delivers a knockout to FIFA LOC

Nic Dawes, editor of the Mail & Guardian, must be feeling pleased with himself these days, and so should local media. The newspaper won not one, but two significant legal battles related to the freedom of access to information in as many weeks.

By Mandy de Waal

10 Jun 2010

The first media victory was in the Pretoria high court which ordered that a confidential report on Zimbabwe's 2002 elections be handed to the investigative newspaper, as we'd predicted.

The second is equally significant: It relates to all the tenders that the World Cup Local Organising Committee issued and it looks as if the Mail & Guardian will be poring over volumes of documents to see who was granted what, how much and who benefited around the time the final matches will be played.

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