I SHOULD be thankful that Fin24 readers have been reading this column every week for the past four years.
But during this period I have not made even the slightest remark about how South Africa’s constitutional right of free speech is facing the danger of erosion under President Jacob Zuma’s government. This is because signs of this have initially not been there.
But last week’s events in Parliament showed that the underperforming government is beginning to see free speech as a threat of some kind.