*Press Release by Mac Maharaj *
/in relation to/
*Mail & Guardian Online report dated 17 November 2011*
Mail & Guardian seeks to hide its complicity in criminal act/s by
raising the spectre of a threat to media freedom and invoking fears of
censorship.
This afternoon through my attorneys we drew their attention that they
were on record admitting that they were in possession of documents that
they could not have obtained lawfully. Their attention was drawn to the
National Prosecuting Act and that they were in blatant and wilful
contravention of provisions of that Act.
In the name of press freedom the M&G arrogates to itself the "right" to
break the law that has been on our statute books since 1998. Their
editor Nic Dawes acknowledges as much when he states that they will now
seek the permission of the National Director of Public Prosecution, Adv
Menzi Simelane, for "permission to disclose the relevant material". In
short they want the NDPP to retrospectively give them legal protection
against their unlawful actions.
Through their sensational and at times distorted reportage they want
deflect attention from their wrong doing and depict my upholding of my
rights embodied in our laws as a threat to media freedom.
*Statement issued by Mac Maharaj, November 17 2011*
*From:
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=267577&sn=Detail&pid=71616
<http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=267577&sn=Detail&pid=71616>*
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