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Dasnois protest in Cape Town

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Original – Right2Know Campaign and other civil society organisations hold a picket outside Newspaper House in Cape Town, South Africa to protest against the replacement of Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois. Also present at the demonstration are counter-demonstrators (waving printed red, white, and black placards) demonstrating in favour of the replacement of Dasnois.

Reason

I am being possibly a bit presumptuous being that it is footage rather than a picture but here it goes. It is video footage of a protest concerning media freedom in South Africa that is of national importance and has made national news (you can see me in that news report pottering around recording event on my phone like a very lost person at 1:50) :-).

In the footage you can see both the original protester's protesting against the firing of the editor and counter-protesters (waving printed red, white, and black placards) who showed up unexpectedly in support of the firing. On the 6th December 2013 the Cape Times led with a front-page article on the Public Protector's report highlighting irregularities in the awarding of the Sekunjalo Marine Services Consortium tender. The same day, the newspaper's editor, Alide Dasnois, was dismissed from her post by Iqbal Survé, executive chairman of Sekunjalo Investments which owns both Sekunjalo Marine as well as Sekunjalo Independent Media which the Cape Times is a part of. In response to a perceived attack on press freedom, several organizations participated in the protest to show their support for Dasnois and of concern over editorial independence at the Cape Times.

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Sekunjalo Investments

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Demonstrations and protests in South Africa

Creator

Discott

• Support as nominator --Discott (talk) 13:32, 19 December 2013 (UTC)