That’s according to Andrew Heslop, editor of press freedom and media development at the World Editors Forum, who wrote an open letter to Zuma that was published in the City Press on Sunday. The letter was a response to Jacob Zuma’s speech made to a group of journalism students from the Tshwane University of Technology about “patriotic reporting.”
President Jacob Zuma addressed a group of journalism students from the Tshwane University of Technology yesterday. He told them that when he leaves South Africa people always have such great things to say about how well the country is doing, but when he is in South Africa the reporting concentrates on the ‘opposite of positive.’