Chief operations officer for Independent Media Takudzwa Hove, left, with Sunday Independent editor Zingisa Mkhuma and Pretoria News editor Piet Rampedi. Hove says the constant desire to silence Independent Media highlights the very reason why the PIC was interested in investing in the publishing house in the first place. Picture: Karen Sandison/African News Agency (ANA)
Independent Media presents its case to SCoF, restates threat to media freedom
CAPE TOWN – CAPE TOWN – Independent Media on Wednesday observed how peculiar it was, that the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), claiming to act for pensioners, had instituted summons against SIM and Independent Media and had not offered any support or attempt to defend media freedom and journalism.