Media muzzle meets sagovleaks.com

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• Times Live: Website to battle secrecy bill... This will miff many a Manyi... South African expats Down Under and in Scotland are fine-tuning a website - sagovleaks.com - that will allow whistle-blowers to report government corruption, mismanagement, wastage and other assorted screw-ups without the fear of prosecution. Sagovleaks.com will be launched soon and will mirror WikiLeaks.

  When oh when will this government realise that the voice of truth will NEVER be silenced?

• Times Live: Manyi's next onslaught... If our man Manyi has his way our TV screens could soon be filled with more cabinet ministers than we already have extolling their latest "successes" and, presumably, blaming the Third Force, Famous Five, Secret Seven and others for screw-ups that have somehow become known. A sort of "Gov's Truth", in other words.

  Manyi says the government is "not messing around" and will buy time on TV, but the question might be: Why bother?

  The government already has its tame mouthpiece, the SABC (once described by the media's other friend Julius as "ours"). So, here's an idea: why not just be done with it, admit that the national broadcaster is there to serve the government and promote its interests and simply load the airwaves with even more "praise singers" than at present with the mission to ply the "Gov's Truth"?

  "We are at the moment trying to procure a space. As the government, we take communication seriously and we will stop at nothing to see to it that our messages get across," Manyi said.

  Well, don't be surprised if most thinking viewers stop at nothing - and switch channels.

• Mail & Guardian: Qwelane unleashes lawyers on hate speech verdict... Oh dear, it seems Jolly Jon really dislikes his hate-speech conviction.