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RE: The best way to promote your book - get the spy agency to ban it
Hello Kiligirl..Hope you are doing well.. Had gone through your post. Salute to journalist
Jacques Pavw for his guts to expose the ideologies supported by National Party's Government's regime. Although the book was banned but by then already a large number of it were sold.
The other book "The Rogue " written by ex- SARS investigator tried to expose how tobacco smuggling was spreading and becoming a burning issue in your continent ..I think , the government must take some firm steps here.
Thanks for making us aware of it...
Resteemed.
Thank you, @momi5! Jacques Pauw had guts during the apartheid years, and now he's taken on the rot at the head of the ANC. He is a brave man indeed. Unfortunately, the rotten bits have almost full control of the government. Luckily they haven't been able to capture the judiciary yet, and they sure haven't captured the investigative journalists - I don't think those guys have been this motivated since the dark days of apartheid.
Really appreciate your support on this post. Thank you! 😊😊
Thank God at least the journalist is alive.. In India, a few months back a lady journalist named Gauri Lankesh was shot dead. She was known for her secularist criticism and this was not tolerated by a communal group which received indirect support from the running government .
Here also, judiciary is the last hope of the
public as it is an autonomous body till now..
Hi there, @momi5, that sounds ominously familiar. The bad guys are certainly threatening Jacques Pauw, and I'll post an update to last week's story shortly that tells us they're trying to figure out who his sources are. So sorry to hear about the journalist Gauri Lankesh - that the group which did not tolerate her criticism is receiving indirect support from the government is indeed worrying. Your comment that the judiciary is the last hope of the public resonates with us, as the question everyone asks is since the ANC control Parliament and they won't carry out their constitutional oversight responsibility to implement the recommendations of the Public Protector from last year...who polices the policeman if the policeman is no longer working to protect the public but rather the one in office and the systems he has set up with outside assistance? This might be a weakness in our excellent constitution - perhaps the framers never conceived of someone who would co-opt all the systems of government (except the judiciary), rendering the country seemingly powerless to bring him and his partners in crime to justice while they continue to loot our state coffers. We are deeply grateful to investigative journalists like Jacques Pauw, and the South African Revenue Services (SARS) senior investigator Johann van Loggerenberg for shining a light on their activities. There are two other books recently launched or coming out shortly - one gets into the detail of how to "steal" a municipality, and the other, written by the head of the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) will be launched later this week. So in addition to our judiciary, we look to the courageous men and women of the press to apply their investigative journalism and writing skills to communicate their findings to the widest audience possible....
I do hope you have other courageous, outspoken journalists like Gauri Lankesh (may she rest in peace) who will not be cowed by bullies and thugs to help empower citizens with fact-checked information to help them in their journey as citizens.
Hello kiligirl. You know , our government is also trying to influence the judiciary but for this, the constitution has to be amended and this is not easily possible in a democratic country like India .Thus, people have trust in judiciary till now.
In case of journalism , most of the print and electric media are sold out to the political parties or powerful business men. Only some online media houses and non compromising media persons are playing an active role against corruption .
Hi, @momi5, I've only now seen your reply! I'm currently in Zambia so am not monitoring Steemit as closely as I should. Indeed, every country needs a strong, independent and resilient judiciary, and I'm glad that's the case in India as you say. Sorry to learn that the media, on the other hand, are controlled by powerful political and business interests. Unfortunately that seems to be the nature of media - control the message and you control the levers of power through demagogy. It's encouraging, on the other hand, that you still have some media players who are not compromised. Strength to them and India's citizens!