{"id":56793,"date":"2014-05-03T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=56793"},"modified":"2014-05-03T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T14:37:56","slug":"media-freedom-threat-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/56793\/media-freedom-threat-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Media freedom threat in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The FW De Klerk Foundation on Saturday expressed concern about possible threats to media freedom in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Although press freedom in South Africa&#8230; is enjoyed and protected generally, there are indicators of threats to press freedom,&#8221; said foundation spokesman Jacques du Preez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The foundation issued a statement in recognition of Press Freedom Day on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Du Preez said while media freedom was protected by the Constitution -&#8220;weighed against&#8221; the theme for this year&#8217;s press freedom day, SA did not appear to entirely measure up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The theme for the day includes reflection on the media&#8217;s importance in development, the safety of journalists and the rule of law as well as the sustainability and integrity of journalism.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"BodyP\" style=\"color: #000000;\">More on the\u00a0media in SA<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006699;\" title=\"Press freedom in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/56689\/press-freedom-in-south-africa\/\"><strong>Press freedom in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006699;\" title=\"DA proposes new ministerial handbook for Gauteng\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/56717\/da-proposes-new-ministerial-handbook-for-gauteng\/\"><strong>DA proposes new ministerial handbook for Gauteng<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FW De Klerk Foundation on Saturday expressed concern about possible threats to media freedom in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[7857,26,7847],"class_list":["post-56793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-de-klerk-foundation","tag-headline","tag-media-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793\/revisions\/56799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}