A pending court complaint alleges bias after the regulator voted to block radio advertisements about the dangers of sugar

In a landmark move, the commission has released a provisional report that exposes how the tech giants have systematically exploited the local media industry, particularly community print and digital news media

This is an edited extract from My Radio Memory: Listening to the Listener, which is edited by Robin Sewlal, with articles by 100 contributors. This one is by the journalist, editor and media scholar Guy Berger

The public broadcaster has rejected the party’s demand that it not refer to the ruling coalition as a government of national unity as an attack on media freedom

A deepfake ad ‘featuring’ Patrice Motsepe is still luring people into online trading platform

The report found that interest in politics had also dwindled among the country’s news readers

Radio has adapted to the times and, a century in, is going strong and changing lives in South Africa

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Researcher delves into SABC censors’ logic – and lack thereof – during apartheid