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Annette
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Nou toe nou - ons is altyd vertel die pen is magtiger as die swaard.
Bewys dit.
Annette
"Ferdi" skryf in boodskap news:btk6h35f455ekff4d2jr069f8rb6d58oea@4ax.com...
> SANEF OUTRAGED AT ALLEGATIONS REGARDING SUNDAY TIMES
>
> The SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has expressed outrage at
> alleged political and police action regarding Sunday Times editor
> Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker, likening it
> to apartheid-era conduct.
> Sanef noted with concern the reported intention of police to arrest
> and charge Makhanya and Maker with contravening the National Health
> Act, the forum said in a statement on Monday.
> The alleged offence was that they were in illegal possession of
> copies of Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's medical
> records.
> "This latest development will prevent the Sunday Times and the
> aggrieved parties [from presenting] their full cases before an
> independent arbiter, whose decision we expect them to embrace," Sanef
> said.
> Sanef was also disturbed by reports that police had been instructed
> to dig up "dirt" on Makhanya and the journalists who wrote the story.
> "We are also perturbed that the journalists' cell phone records
> have
> been investigated.
> "If these allegations are true, and are coupled with the threats of
> Minister in the Presidency Dr Essop Pahad to withhold government
> advertising from the Sunday Times, [it] would reveal outrageous
> conduct
> by political and police authorities."
> They would be targeting a newspaper for punitive action for
> carrying
> out its duty to inform the public on matters of public interest, a
> role
> that a High Court judge had upheld.
> Judge Mahomed Jajbhay recently found that there was "a pressing
> need" for the public to be informed about the minister's conduct and
> ruled that the paper was free to comment on them.
> Sanef noted the irony that Makhanya's arrest was expected to take
> place the week when journalists throughout South Africa were
> commemorating Black Wednesday -- the day 30 years ago when the
> repressive National Party government imprisoned or banned journalists
> and closed some newspapers and publications.
> "Black Wednesday signalled the launching by that government of
> total
> war on the media; Sanef hopes that the action against Makhanya and the
> Sunday Times will not convey the same message," the forum said.
> Earlier on Monday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) called on
> Parliament's intelligence committee to investigate allegations that
> state operatives tapped Makhanya and Maker's cellphones.
> "The... committee needs to take immediate action to confirm this
> alleged misuse of state intelligence resources, which is not only
> completely unnecessary, but also unrelated to the facts of the Manto
> Tshabalala-Msimang/Sunday Times case," DA spokesman and committee
> member Paul Swart said.
> "To use state resources on behalf of a private individual, as
> Tshabalala-Msimang has done in this case, because of her government
> connections, is a blatant encroachment of the state into the private
> sphere in order to protect connected individuals," he said.
> The Sunday Times reported at the weekend it had been warned by
> several sources, including intelligence and senior government
> officials
> that Makhanya and Maker's cellphones were being tapped.
> The newspaper on Monday also refuted allegations it bought
> Tshabalala-Msimang's medical records from certain individuals.
> "Sunday Times wishes to state that it did not pay one cent for
> access to the records and regards the practice of paying for
> information and stories as unethical, the newspaper's lawyer Eric van
> den Berg said in a statement.
> However, he declined to reveal how the newspaper obtained the
> records, saying the matter was the subject of a police investigation.
>
>
> Source : Sapa /jk/cn/jr
>
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