ANTON HARBER: Why government’s attitude to the media has shifted
Once it threatened clampdown; now it grasps the role journalists played in uncovering state capture
01 September 2022 - 14:13
The recent attack on Salman Rushdie revived a piece I published a decade ago about the author’s aborted visit to SA in the week when the fatwa against him was proclaimed.
The piece, published in The Guardian, had sunk without trace at the time, but got new legs when Rushdie and the fatwa came back into the news in the past few weeks when he was stabbed during a public appearance...
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