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Is freedom of the press important?

SANDTON - Is freedom of the press important to you? The Sandton Chronicle asked local community members and here is what they had to say ...

 

Loi Thobesane: It is important to me that our government allows us to express ourselves. I believe that we have a right to know about all issues in our country.
Loi Thobesane: It is important to me that our government allows us to express ourselves. I believe that we have a right to know about all issues in our country.
Lerato Sekoko: We deserve to know about everything that happens in our country. I think it is wrong that the SABC wants to limit what we may know about.
Lerato Sekoko: We deserve to know about everything that happens in our country. I think it is wrong that the SABC wants to limit what we may know about.
Joy Jean-Marie: I believe that censorship of information, and limited freedom of press can do this country harm. Not only in the SABC but in other forms of government. We deserve this freedom.
Joy Jean-Marie: I believe that censorship of information, and limited freedom of press can do this country harm. Not only in the SABC but in other forms of government. We deserve this freedom.
Angela van Wyk: It's definitely important to have freedom of the press. I believe it is our right as citizens of a democratic South Africa to have full access of information.
Angela van Wyk: It’s definitely important to have freedom of the press. I believe it is our right as citizens of a democratic South Africa to have full access of information.
Sean Smith: Freedom of speech means not letting the powers that be control who we are, or what we do by censoring what 'they' are doing to control us.
Sean Smith: Freedom of speech means not letting the powers that be control who we are, or what we do by censoring what ‘they’ are doing to control us.

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