President Ramaphosa has begun to address us on the #coronavirus mg.co.za/article/2020-0… South Africa now has 61 confirmed cases of the novel #coronavirus - we are now dealing with local transmissions.

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The M&G's journalism is under attack.

This is not a trite and overly dramatic way to say it. A free media is a key component to a functioning democracy. We have rights and responsibilities bestowed to us by the Constitution of South Africa. As the @washingtonpost puts it: "Democracy dies in darkness."

A story we published has been taken down from the M&G Online because of a spurious and dishonest complaint. Because that story is no longer online, and we want you to read it, we will be tweeting it in a thread

Some South African phones have been infected by Pegasus, a notorious surveillance software that is sold only to governments. bit.ly/2Qoe05i In a report titled ‘Hide and Seek’ which was released on Monday, Citizen Lab — a Canada based internet watchdog — identified 45 countries in which infected devices have been traced, after scanning the internet for servers associated with Pegasus spyware.