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Original Post Date: 2010-09-08 Time: 15:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
By Chantelle Benjamin
Johannesburg – SOME of the greatest proponents of the controversial Protection of Information Bill had been caught with their “hands in the till”, Govin Reddy, a Stellenbosch University professor and a former SABC radio head, said yesterday.
Prof Reddy, speaking at a BBC-led debate on media freedom in SA, the Protection of Information Bill and the proposed media tribunal, said: “SA started with an aggressive, active media in 1994 and it’s been downhill ever since.
“Clearly the longer government has been in power, the greater the corruption, and media has played a pivotal role in exposing corruption, of which the president (Jacob Zuma ) has been a part. There has been looting and many at the top have been caught with their hand in the till and they are some of the greatest proponents of the bill.”
The bill has been criticised for giving government officials wide discretion to classify information, and laying down harsh penalties, including imprisonment, if such information is published.
Prof Reddy agreed with the African National Congress (ANC) contention that self-regulation of the South African media is wanting, but said this had to do with the inadequate funding of the ombudsman.
“(SA’s) self-regulation of media is not the best in the world, in fact it is pathetic, but what can one expect? T he ombudsman office is two men and a secretary and they are trying to monitor the whole of the media.”
The ANC, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party have argued the ombudsman process takes too long, it has no teeth, the office is funded by print media and staffed by an ex-journalist, and there is no recourse to the courts.
In their arguments in favour of a media tribunal, Tuwani Gumani, general secretary of the Media Workers Association of SA , said the main issue was that the government felt there had been little transformation in the media. “The issue is about ownership and the perception about who makes policy decisions – – the editor and owners.”
Prof Reddy said the view that the media was a white-owned monopoly was not based on fact. “There is a myth that ownership and control has not undergone enormous transformation and change. At the time the ANC took over, the country had two English-speaking publication houses, two Afrikaans publication houses and a government-led SABC.
“The SABC has been under a black government now for 16 years and the media has seen massive transformation – – the country’s biggest newspaper, the Sunday Times, is black-owned, independent television channel eTV is black-owned, (and) radio station Radio 702 is black-owned ,” said Prof Reddy.
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Original date published: 8 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009080015.html?viewall=1