Slain anti-apartheid activist Ruth First envisaged a South Africa where freedom of expression was “as essential as the air we breathe”, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe said during a lecture in honour of First at Wits University, writes Mpho Raborife for journalism.co.za.

Planning is in full swing for the second edition of Joburg Radio Days, which will bring together academics and practitioners from across the continent and further afield to discuss the challenges confronting the medium in an increasingly converged world.  Top-flight speakers have been confirmed from a range of countries and backgrounds for the event, scheduled for July 27 - 29.  Click here for further details.

Highly experienced and controversial British journalist and film-maker Laurie Flynn will be Wits Journalism's 2011 Taco Kuiper Visiting Fellow in Investigative Reporting. Flynn will be in South Africa for four months from August 2011 to teach, run workshops, conduct seminars and participate in Wits Journalism activities and programmes.

After 19 years of struggling to prove their innocence, Fusi Mofokeng and Tshokolo Joseph Mokoena walked out of Kroonstad prison as free men on Saturday.