The new “SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners” provides a comprehensive overview of media laws and practices in Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The study is published at a time when the media in all four nations are struggling to define their rights to free speech and access to information.
The 156-page study, published by the German Foundation Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) in collaboration with the Mandela Institute, is intended as a reference resource for working journalists, media lawyers, free speech activists, and others working in the media field.
The book includes a detailed analysis of the constitutional and regulatory frameworks governing media freedom in all three countries. It also contains analysis of market structures, media practices, and an overview of important legal precedents that shape everything from access to public information, to defamation, rights to privacy, and freedom of expression.
The study also provides an in-depth look at the regulatory bodies governing the print and electronic media, and bodies or legal frameworks governing the control of information. Finally, the study explores the ethical codes used by journalists to moderate their reportage and protect sources, including detailed interviews with journalists who talk of their everyday experience of media freedom - or lack of freedom.
This book featured here in Adobe Acrobat format is available in hard copy on request from the KAS Media Programme. Copyright vests in the authors of the works and/or Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Use of any part of these works must be attributed to the authors. Hard copies of the books can be posted to you based on the cost of postage and handling. Please e-mail Jude Mathurine for more information.