Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training and SACP’s general secretary’s statement that the media is “social revolution’s worst enemy” is a wild generalisation and fundamentally wrong.

The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), a non-governmental organisation that reports on trends in the media, reacted to Nzimande’s comments.

[Translation from Afrikaans to English]

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