ANA reports that the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) on Tuesday urged ANN7 journalists who were threatened while doing their jobs to report such incidents to the police.  

Sanef indicated that it had it received a report of verbal attacks and threats of physical harm to journalists from the television station, which is owned by the controversial Gupta family, when they were covering a protest in Cape Town last week.  The perpetrators were apparently members of the public.  Sanef said:  “Journalists should be allowed to conduct their work without fear or favour.  We also wish to point out that in April 2016, we protested and met with the leaders of the Economic Freedom Fighters when they made threats to bar ANN7 journalists from their events, as we believe that journalists are workers and should enjoy freedom of association.”

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