FT.com: Silence about the silencing of South Africa’s press

Gideon Rachman: "[A] proposed law in South Africa that would go a long way to muzzling the press ... is a major threat to South African democracy. Yet, I have been struck by the almost total silence of the British press on this subject. Papers that devoted acres of space to the success of the World Cup cannot be bothered to follow up with a report of what’s going on in South Africa now."