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Title   So This Is Democracy?: State of media freedom in Southern Africa 2003
Author Media Institute of Southern Africa
Edition PDF
Published Windhoek: MISA
Year 2004-04-28
Pages 171
Abstract MISA's annual publication, "So This Is Democracy?: State of media freedom in Southern Africa" in commemoration of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. This is the tenth consecutive year in which MISA has issued this publication which records incidents of media freedom violations monitored by MISA in 2003. MISA issued 188 alerts in 2003 about media freedom and freedom of expression violations in SADC countries. This is an decrease of 9,7 per cent over the 208 alerts recorded in the previous year. The countries monitored include Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. MISA is in the process of resuscitating its media freedom monitoring activities in Angola.

www.misa.org/sothisisdemocracy.html
Bestand misaSTID2003_20040503.pdf (2103 Kb)
Country Botswana , Lesotho , Malawi , Mozambique , Namibia , South-Africa , Swaziland , Tanzania , Zambia , Zimbabwe
Themes
  • Freedom of expression
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