Sanef

The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has called on media owners to ensure journalists are safe and have support to fight online abuse. It believes the hostile environment faced by journalists is a direct attack on freedom of expression. George Charamba, the press secretary in the Office of the President of Zimbabwe and permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information,…

Sanef has condemned "abusive and intimidatory" behaviour toward a news crew covering an EFF protest.EFF members reportedly chased away an eNCA crew from a mall in Cape Town. Sanef has appealed to the EFF to uphold the principles of the country's Constitution. The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has condemned "abusive and intimidatory behaviour" toward an…

News24 journalist Jenni Evans was covering the unrest when she was attacked by group of men, she says. Sanef says it regards the attack on Evans as a violation of press freedom by criminals posing as community members. Eleven people were arrested on Tuesday following looting at a liquor store on Delft Main Road. The South African…

Sanef has urged stakeholders, including government, corporates and individual citizens, to support the embattled media industry. Primedia is the latest media house to announce possible retrenchments. The South African National Editors' Forum has raised concerns about the growing number of publications announcing job cuts amid the Covid-19 pandemic.The forum has appealed to stakeholders, the government and…

have not been on air since Tuesday morning, but eNCA insists that they have not been suspended, News24 reported on Thursday. On Tuesday, Mngambi and Dutton issued an on-air apology for comments made during an eNCA news broadcast on Monday that implied that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma had undermined President Cyril…