UDM calls on Cachalia and Masemola to safeguard press freedom [SOUND]

# The UDM is calling on acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia and national police commissioner Fannie Masemola to urgently reinforce to safeguard press freedom while strengthening policing during protests. The party’s Zandile Phiri referred to journalists Sandiso Phaliso who was assaulted in Nyanga in Cape Town, and Julia Evans who was wounded by a rubber bullet while covering community protests in Westbury, Johannesburg. She says these incidents speak to a broader tendency within SAPS to abandon restraint in favour of brute force: