EDITORIAL | Attempts to silence critical voices pose a great danger to our democracy
Whether it’s in Russia or here in SA, any attempt to stop or ban freedom of speech is an attack on human rights
18 September 2022 - 22:02
Just as Steve Biko’s death left apartheid-era justice minister Jimmy Kruger “cold” so too will the death of the Novaya Gazeta — one of Russia’s few remaining independent newspapers — leave that country’s president Valdimir Putin cold...
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