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The DDP was initiated in 1993 as a partner project of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of Germany. For the last 17 years it has been a non-partisan non-profit organisation, supporting capacity building on governance and civil society levels to ensure that both are empowered for meaningful participation in South Africa’s social transformation.
Recent EventsPublic Forum: Reforming the Education System-what is the way forward?
| Recent Articlesattack on press freedom more than a rights issueBy Imraan Buccus -- Research has shown that a clamp on the media goes hand in hand with many other social ills- The debate on press freedom has been a critical part of the national conversation in recent weeks. In this context it may be worth turning to the work of the great Indian economist, Amartya Sen, who changed the way we understand famines-and was able to draw a fascinating link between press freedom and famine. For him the topic of famine was not one of mere academic interest. Sen found that in no country was famine the result of a shortage of food. The real problem was the ...
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Seminar: MEDIA FREEDOM UNDER THREAT?
