Three years ago, speaking in Burma of all places, American President Barack Obama spoke of how "societies that repress journalists ultimately oppress other people as well". At home, in the past week, we’ve seen a spate of attacks, both physical and with smears, on journalists, including on this magazine’s editor-at-large Peter Bruce and its former editor Tim Cohen. The full extent of the intimidation of the brave SABC journalist Suna Venter, who tragically died last week partly due to this stress, is an alarming sign of this trend.
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