SA drops in World Press Freedom rankings
(World News South Africa)

South Africa has dropped to number 31 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), falling three places from its 2018 ranking. At number 23, Namibia is the highest-ranked African country on the list, which features Nordic regions Norway, Finland and Sweden in the top three spots respectively. `The RSF Index shows that an intense climate of fear has been triggered — one that is prejudicial to a safe reporting environment,` RSF said in a statement. `The hostility towards journalists expressed by political leaders in many countries has incited increasingly serious and frequent acts of violence that have fuelled an...