Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked. Four armed men broke into the control room of the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center, shooting "a senior emergency officer" in the process. The government nuclear agency Necsa insisted the paper not run this story.
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Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama:
Wow, very scary.
Is it common practice in So. Africa to block such news stories?
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Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames:
good question. Even now there are very few details on this story
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Posted: 2 years ago by rambler:
« dollyllama : Wow, very scary.
Is it common practice in So. Africa to block such news stories? Our old (apartheid-era) governments were often labelled "repressive" and they certainly tried (with partial success) to block news stories. Now the new (post-apartheid) government has been attempting the same.
Fortunately the press is quite free and very keen to investigate and publish as much as possible, even if it means stretching the law a bit... This has not changed from years ago.
I think the present government is having a hard time accepting that the press which was so critical years ago, is still being critical today.
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