MBABANE: The Campaign for Free Expression(CFE) whose Director is South African Professor of Journalism Anton Harber says, as an organization,they are mornitoring the case of King Mswati against the Swaziland News and it’s editor Zweli Martin Dlamini very closely.
In a statement published in the organization’s website,the Professor of Journalism said,it would be unheard of for the courts to order a journalist to give notice of their stories to the subjects of those stories.
“It would be unheard of for our courts to order a journalist to give prior notice of stories to the subjects of those stories,” said CFE’s Anton Harber.
The Professor further mentioned that the case “is largely about an internal Eswatini political struggle,but it has potential implications for the work of journalists if it goes ahead.It is an attempt to bring the repression in Eswatini into South Africa.CFE is watching the case closely”, he said.
Worth-noting, another South African organization has contacted the editor and his legal team seeking to hire its own legal team and join the case in defense of media freedom.
This was after the matter was widely published by the South African media, the editor has been facing persecution by the eSwatini King and his Government for publishing critical articles.
Campaign for Free Expression Director Professor Anton Harber(pic: CFE).