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Digital Rights
Journalist Karim Brown is being swamped with insulting texts, threatening phone calls and hate messages on social networks by members of the Economic Freedom fighters, South Africa's third largest party.
South Africa Highlights
Attacks
Media freedom advocacy organisation are concerned by South African opposition politician Julius Malema's use of threats and insults against media outlets and singling out of journalists. Malema has been condemned for his attempts to intimidate the press.
Censorship
Gender
This South African photographer uses her portraits of black lesbian women to provide a platform where they can celebrate their identity.
Attacks
A Johannesburg court has granted a South African journalists' request for an order to stop a campaign of intimidation by activists from "Black First, Land First" (BLF), who picketed the home of an editor and published a list of journalists to target.
Caro Rolando for IFEX
South Africa
Attacks
Censorship
Freedom of Assembly
5 December 2016
Freedom House
Freedom House
South Africa
Attacks
Censorship
22 June 2016
Privacy International
South Africa
Digital Rights
20 April 2016
Freedom House
South Africa
Attacks
23 March 2016
Media Institute of Southern Africa
South Africa
Digital Rights
Free Expression & the Law
25 August 2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Access to Information
South Africa
Digital Rights
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
26 May 2015
PEN American Center
South Africa
Attacks
13 April 2015
Media Institute of Southern Africa
South Africa
Attacks
28 January 2015
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Access to Information
South Africa
Free Expression & the Law
19 January 2015
PEN International
South Africa
Free Expression & the Law
8 October 2014
Index on Censorship
South Africa
Censorship
14 July 2014
International Press Institute
South Africa
Free Expression & the Law
9 May 2014
International Press Institute
International
South Africa
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
17 April 2014
Human Rights Watch
Kenya
Rwanda
Uganda
Impunity
South Africa
Attacks
30 January 2014
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
South Africa
Censorship
Freedom of Assembly
28 January 2014
Zambia
South Africa
10 January 2014
International Federation of Journalists
International Press Institute
Index on Censorship
South Africa
Freedom of Assembly
Free Expression & the Law
6 December 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
South Africa
Attacks
11 September 2013
Index on Censorship
South Africa
Digital Rights
Censorship
13 August 2013
Index on Censorship
Access to Information
South Africa
Free Expression & the Law
22 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
South Africa
Free Expression & the Law
26 April 2013
Media Institute of Southern Africa
South Africa
Attacks
7 March 2013
Media Institute of Southern Africa
South Africa
Attacks
16 January 2013
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