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Media & Entertainment Law

Newly launched Free Expression Legal Network to increase protection for media freedom

21 Feb 2025

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Media & Entertainment Law

PoPIA v press freedom: SA court to decide on HIV disclosure case

Ahmore Burger-Smidt 6 Feb 2025

Source: © 123rf The mandarins of government communication cannot afford to be bystanders in the evolving narrative of SA's maturing democracy says Motalatale Modiba, chief director communication: Gauteng Department of Health

PR & Communications

Reassessing government communication in the evolving narrative of SA's maturing democracy

Motalatale Modiba 5 Jul 2024

DMRE is revisiting possible nuclear power generation. Source: Shaun P Twomey/Pexels

Nuclear Power

Latest government nuclear push sparks faith community outcry

21 Mar 2024

Wayne Toms, GhostDraft CEO

Trends

#BizTrends2024: AI integration into CCM is about digital transformation

Lindsey Schutters 31 Jan 2024

Psychosocial palliative care: The dying person's Bill of Rights

Palliative care

Psychosocial palliative care: The dying person's Bill of Rights

Issued by Association of Palliative Care Centres (APCC) 6 Jun 2023

Covid-19

"There should be no secrecy in a pandemic" - Health Justice Initiative's senior researcher

13 Sep 2022

Covid-19

The HJI launches litigation for disclosure of SA's Covid-19 vaccine contracts

10 Mar 2022

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Media Freedom

Assange's unconditional release called for by R2K

5 Jan 2022

6,000 people sign petition demanding City of Cape Town comes clean on water quality

Circular Economy & Waste Management

6,000 people sign petition demanding City of Cape Town comes clean on water quality

26 Aug 2021

Agriculture and the consumer's "right to know" movement

Agriculture

Agriculture and the consumer's "right to know" movement

Theo Boshoff 18 Jan 2021

How to calculate sectional title levies

Residential Property

How to calculate sectional title levies

Björn Laubscher 2 Dec 2020

Do brands know too little or too much about their consumers?

CRM, CX, UX

Do brands know too little or too much about their consumers?

Haydn Townsend 3 Nov 2020

Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. Source: Wikipedia

Nuclear Power

South Africans have a right to know government's nuclear plans

14 Aug 2020

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Media

Wan-Ifra president writes open letter: Quality journalism in troubled times

31 Mar 2020

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Pharmaceuticals

Clinical trials: how to make informed consent more ethical

Jeremy Howick 19 Feb 2020

Yusrah and Naseerah Du Toit in the RX Radio studio.

Youth Month

#YouthMonth: Voices for the future of the nation with RX Radio

Leigh Andrews 7 Jun 2019

Former head of the Gauteng department of health Barney Selebano (pictured) may lose his license to practise medicine after an inqury into his involvement in the Life Esidimeni deaths in September. (Joyrene Kramer, Section27)

Mental health

Whatever happened to the doctors & nurses involved in the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy

Nelisiwe Msomi 27 May 2019

Recycling: poorer countries can now refuse plastic waste imports - this could make the system fairer

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Recycling: poorer countries can now refuse plastic waste imports - this could make the system fairer

Jen Allan 27 May 2019

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Medical Research

Corporations are funding health and nutrition research -- here's why you should be worried

Sarah Steele & Lejla Sarcevic 15 May 2019

A billboard for Nigeria's incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, who won re-election in February. Credit: CPJ/Jonathan Rozen.

Media Freedom

Nigerian journalists speak out on press freedom

Jonathan Rozen 8 May 2019

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Online Media

Why news outlets should think twice about republishing the New Zealand mosque shooter's livestream

Colleen Murrell 18 Mar 2019

87% of journalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia view the industry negatively

Research

87% of journalists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia view the industry negatively

12 Dec 2018

Fish farming at industrial scale: a Turkish case study

Fishing

Fish farming at industrial scale: a Turkish case study

Irmak Ertör 7 Nov 2018

Who needs a principal?

Property

Who needs a principal?

Jim Alexander 27 Aug 2018

Media Freedom

R2K announces Freedom week

26 Apr 2018

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Social Media

Bruce Daisley of Twitter on the power of amazing culture businesses (Part 2)

Jon Ratcliffe 12 Apr 2018

Moroccan court convicts local publisher of criminal defamation

Media

Moroccan court convicts local publisher of criminal defamation

19 Feb 2018

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FMCG

SodaStream joins petition calling for Coca-Cola to reveal Cape water sources

14 Feb 2018

How will your right to privacy change under POPIA?

Legislation & Regulation

How will your right to privacy change under POPIA?

Elizabeth de Stadler 26 Jan 2018

Is your digital footprint enhancing your networking efforts?

HR

Is your digital footprint enhancing your networking efforts?

Anja van Beek 15 Jan 2018

FairPlay urges enquiry into unsafe labelling of chicken imports

Health & Safety

FairPlay urges enquiry into unsafe labelling of chicken imports

11 Dec 2017

SA needs a tax bill of rights to govern how Sars treats taxpayers

Taxation & Regulation

SA needs a tax bill of rights to govern how Sars treats taxpayers

Linda Ensor 13 Nov 2017

Promoting press freedom in Malawi

Media

Promoting press freedom in Malawi

29 Sep 2017

Threats to media after Uganda parliamentary brawl

Media

Threats to media after Uganda parliamentary brawl

28 Sep 2017

Luke McKend. Credit: Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.org.za

Media

Fake news is ‘weaponised social media'

Louise Marsland 3 Aug 2017

Thuli Madonsela

Finance

A word or two with Thuli Madonsela

Nicci Botha 31 May 2017

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Social Media

Brands and social media influencers, are you at risk?

Kelly Thompson 31 Mar 2017

R2K worried about Independent Media's decision to leave Press Council

Media Freedom

R2K worried about Independent Media's decision to leave Press Council

28 Oct 2016

TV

Nigeria: digital switchover in progress

13 Oct 2016

SNII drives collaborative rural development programme

Internet

SNII drives collaborative rural development programme

22 Jul 2016

Cinema screenings from Encounters Documentary Film Festival

Film & Cinematography

Cinema screenings from Encounters Documentary Film Festival

3 Jun 2016

DEA makes environmental licences automatically available to public

Environmental Law

DEA makes environmental licences automatically available to public

26 Apr 2016

Environmental licence access no longer buried in bureaucracy

Mining

Environmental licence access no longer buried in bureaucracy

26 Apr 2016

SA's toddlers - a Ritalin generation?

Mental health

SA's toddlers - a Ritalin generation?

2 Feb 2016

US regulators push for distinction between online ads, articles

Advertising

US regulators push for distinction between online ads, articles

24 Dec 2015

Tambo no-fly zone

Aviation

Tambo no-fly zone

8 Oct 2015