Dumisani Muleya, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent and chief reporter, Owen Gagare, were on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 arrested and charged with publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the...
Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation magazine, has lodged an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) understands the appeal went through late Monday (22 April)...
Support continues to pour in for Bheki Makhubu, an editor in Swaziland who was recently threatened with a two-year jail term for “scandalising the court”. Makhubu was ordered to pay...
An unnamed female police inspector on 18 April 2013 assaulted Newsday reporter Nduduzo Tshuma and photographer Resta Nyamwanza while they were covering explosions at a Redan petrol filling station in...
The Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF) has condemned a possible two-year jail term or US$20,000 fine imposed on Bheki Makhubu, an editor, by the courts in Swaziland.
Makhubu edits...
One of Swaziland’s few independent source of news, The Nation magazine, has been found guilty of “contempt by scandalizing the court” following its publication of two articles in 2009 and...
Journalist and human rights activist, Rafael Marques, was on 3rd April, 2013, interrogated and detained by the Department for Combating Organized Crime and the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Luanda...
The board of directors at the Swazi Observer Newspaper Group have reinstated controversially suspended editors, Alec Lushaba and Thulani Thwala. The reinstatement comes eight months after the pair was suspended...
Members of staff at the privately-owned newspaper, The Zimbabwean, on Monday, 18 March 2013 reportedly vacated their offices in the capital Harare following suspicious ‘Unknown’ calls to the news editor Tawanda Majoni.
The suspicious persons...
MISA Namibia hereby expresses its shock and condemnation of the recent assault and intimidation of the Editor of the Namib Independent community newspaper, Gareth Amos, by members of the Namibian...
Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of the Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) and Editor-in-Chief at New Habari Corporation, who was brutally attacked on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 by unknown assailants has lost his...
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has condemned – “in the strongest terms” – what it perceives to be politically-motivated attacks on Zolile Menzelwa, a reporter with the weekly, The...
Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of the Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) and Editor-in-Chief at New Habari Corporation was on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 attacked by unknown assailants at the gate in front...
Members of the Zimbabwe National Army on Sunday, 3 March 2013 reportedly denied Daily News sports reporter, Blessings Mashaya, entrance into Harare’s Rufaro Stadium to cover a charity soccer match between army...
Zenzele Ndebele, the production manager of Radio Dialogue, a community radio station based in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, is expected to appear in court on Monday, 4 March 2013...
Statement on 2 year jail term or R200,00 fine Imposed on Swazi Editor Bheki Makhubu for ‘Scandalising the court’
The Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) strongly condemns the two-year jail term/or R200,000 fine imposed...