Cape Town Press Club mourns the death of Brendan Boyle
Journalist Brendan Boyle, a former chairperson of the Cape Town Press Club, has died in Cape Town after a long struggle with cancer.
February 2019
Cape Town Press Club News: A flying start to 2019.
Detention by Tanzanian authorities of the South African journalist Angela Quintal and her Kenyan colleague Muthoki Mumo
The Cape Town Press Club condemns in the strongest terms the detention by Tanzanian authorities of the South African journalist Angela Quintal and her Kenyan colleague Muthoki Mumo on Wednesday evening.
Keep up international pressure to solve disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
International pressure must be kept up on on the United States, of which Khashoggi is a citizen, and on the governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia to solve the mystery of Kashoggi’s disappearance.
The Cape Town Press Club appalled by life sentences without parole for Turkish journalists
This week, an Istanbul court of appeals upheld the life sentences without parole handed down to four journalists in February this year. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which regularly conducts prison censuses, Turkey remains the world’s leading jailer of journalists with 73 currently behind bars.
SABC must save jobs but not bow to political interference
The Cape Town Press Club appeals to the board to do everything in its power to rescue the SABC without axing journalists.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand
Cape Town Press Club stands in solidarity with Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand after police shut down panel discussion.
Cape Town Press Club Adds Its Voice to Call for Freedom of Jailed Reuters Journalists
The Cape Town Press Club condemns in the strongest possible terms the seven-year-jail sentences handed down on Monday by a Myanmar court on Reuters journalists Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28.
Cape Town Press Club Once Again Has to Set the Record Straight
Club sets the record straight once again as previous co-chair tilts at windmills in the Cape Times.
Cape Town Press Club’s response to recent Cape Times’ reports and social media comments
The Cape Town Press Club Committee has noted a handful of false, inaccurate and misleading remarks made on social media, some of which were regurgitated verbatim by the Cape Times nonetheless.
Setting the Record Straight
Our response to the Cape Times and statements made on social media:
Tony Leon – Barry Streek Memorial Lecture
Tony Leon delivered the Barry Streek Memorial Lecture this year. He pondered: "The Mandela Presidency: Beginnings or Ending of Free Space for South Africa?" – Reflections on South Africa's emergence into a free society and lessons for our country today.
Barry Streek Memorial Lecture By Former President FW De Klerk
Former President FW de Klerk delivered the annual lecture which honours the late Barry Streek, who was a parliamentary reporter throughout the De Klerk presidency.