FREE SPEECH – WHERE ARE WE NOW?
2024-05-07
This article aims to provide a bird’s eye view of the present legal landscape surrounding expression at present and act as a temperature gauge for how this hard-won right is doing.
This article aims to provide a bird’s eye view of the present legal landscape surrounding expression at present and act as a temperature gauge for how this hard-won right is doing.
In a significant move for South Africa’s legal landscape, the crime of defamation has been abolished. Ismail Joosub, Legal Officer of Constitutional Programmes at the FW de Klerk Foundation, explores this change.