Congratulations to the Sowetan Bastion of Free Speech
Yesterday the Sowetan made South African blogging history. Well done chaps. They fired a sub-editor (Llewellyn Kriel) for blogging about the inner workings at AVUSA.
This is a news media company that regularly battles in the courts for the freedom to say what it feels it has to say. But I guess employees don’t have that right.
Llewellyn was fired from the Sowetan for supposedly tarnishing the name of his employer and leaking confidential company information. Both reasons appear bogus to me, especially the charge that he leaked confidential company information.
AVUSA have set a very dangerous and shameful precedent.
Categories: Free Speech
