African countries drag their heels in recognising the importance of access to information. Professor Jane Duncan explains just why this is happening and what is being done urgently to change this.
Yesterday, we published a piece by Stephen Grootes about how the media tends to humiliate ANC leaders. Today we publish Jane Duncan’s reply. Both stories were first published in The Media magazine as part of a series called Dignity in the Media.
The struggle against gender violence must not focus only on changing male attitudes. It must focus on the conditions that allow these attitudes to flourish MANY South Africans have decried the recent, terrible cases of rape.