Thapelo Ndlovu/CPJ Guest Blogger
Thapelo Ndlovu is a journalist, civil society activist, and director of Media Institute of Southern Africa (Botswana).
Why South Africa’s media fight matters to Botswana
For Batswana journalists, news that their South African colleagues are busy warding off a proposed statutory media tribunal from the ruling African National Congress sounds all too familiar. For more than a decade, the government of Botswana has been trying to push a media law that would effectively shift the whole media under state control.This was eventually…