“There needs to be better ways to deal with offences of the press,” MMA spokesperson Taryn Hinton said at public hearings conducted by the Press Council at the University of the Witwatersrand. The system of punishment used should also be in line with the Constitution.

Hinton did not think the proposed Medial Appeals Tribunal was a solution, because it had the potential of clamping down on media freedom.

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