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Judges give journos good news
( 13 February 2008 )
The week before last was a spectacular one for freedom of the media. First, Judge Willie Seriti handed down his reasons for denying Eugene de Kock an interdict against the distribution of the book White Power & the Rise and Fall of the National Party, by Christi van der Westhuizen.

The Health Minister, the Sunday Times and the Difficulty of Balancing Constitutional Rights
( 23 October 2007 )
At the end of August, the high court handed down judgment in one of the key media cases of the year, the privacy case brought by the Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, against the Sunday Times.