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South African Journalists Expect to Be Arrested for Exposing Health Minister’s Ways
October 18, 2007 at 11:40 AM
General Health News
Certainly one cannot take for granted media freedom. Look for instance what is happening to two leading editors for exposing the highhanded ways of the country’s Health Minister at a Cape Town clinic.
A lawyer for Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker said a couple of days ago that they would hand themselves over to police in Cape Town later in the week.
They would do this rather than wait to be arrested for the alleged possession of medical records belonging to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Lawyer Eric van den Berg said Makhanya and Maker had not yet been formally charged, but that they heard it on good authority that their arrest was imminent.
"They have decided to make themselves available to the police, so the matter can be dealt with as soon as possible," he said.
The records, which allegedly went missing from Cape Town Medi-Clinic, are believed to be the source of the August 12 expose by the paper which revealed that during two stays at the clinic, the health minister allegedly dispatched staff to buy alcohol and was abusive to staff.
It is illegal in terms of the National Health Act to gain access to another person's health records without their permission.
Political parties and civic organisations reacted with concern yesterday to the news, saying it had serious implications for press freedom.
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