Nelson Mandela, a celebrated symbol

After democracy was ushered into South Africa during 1994 under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, one of the central pillars of freedom, ie press freedom, became a celebrated symbol. This remains so twenty years later, despite robust efforts by the Zuma presidency to impinge on it via a so-called need to protect state security under the guise of “secrecy”. That's the view of the Media Review Networks Iqbal Jassat who has penned an interesting piece titled Media Freedom: constant challenges. He is online..