Jack up governance, stamp out graft, if you want better coverage

Despite its dominance at the polls, and its control of the SABC, the ruling party seems determined to use the machinery of the state to bring the independent media to heel. The ANC has been threatening to introduce a tribunal to hold journalists to account and to ''transform'' the media since the 2007 Polokwane conference that catapulted Jacob Zuma into high office.