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Title: | South Africa's Inquiry into Racism in the Media: The Role of National Institutions in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights |
Author: | Pityana, N. Barney |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 99 |
Issue: | 397 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 525-532 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | race relations freedom of the press Literature, Mass Media and the Press Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/723314 |
Abstract: | This article by the Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission is a response to an article by Daryl Glaser in African Affairs, vol. 99, no. 396 (2000), which was a critique of the intellectual basis of the Commission's Inquiry into Racism in the Media. The article outlines the functions of the inquiry, the nature of the South African Human Rights Commission, the background of the inquiry, the Terms of Reference and Procedures for the inquiry, which were deliberately limited, the recruitment of researchers, the controversy surrounding the announcement of the inquiry, the Interim Report which was published on 22 November 1999, the decision to issue subpoenas to all parties who were believed to have information necessary to enable the inquiry, the response by editors and journalists required to appear before the Commission, and the public hearings which took place in March 2000. The author concludes that the Commission has been consistent in asserting that the inquiry was not a trial. There may have been some methodological flaws but these have to be judged in terms of the brief given to the researchers and the Terms of Reference. Notes, ref. |