Justine Limpitlaw and Christian Echle

Author Justine Limpitlaw is an independent communications law consultant based in Johannesburg. She specialises in media, broadcasting, telecommunications, and space and satellite law. The second volume of her Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa was launched in September 2013. Christian Echle is the director of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Media Programme for sub-Saharan Africa based in Johannesburg. He contributed to this article.

In Africa, journalists hamstrung by laws when reporting the news

by Justine Limpitlaw and Christian Echle | 22 Oct 13

African journalists face more than deadlines in the race to report the news. Justine Limpitlaw and Christian Echle of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Media Programme write how media laws interfere