Cape Town — The SABC has placed a ban on the reading of newspaper headlines or discussing newspapers’ front pages on air in ongoing censorship creep at the South African public broadcaster, with the SABC rationalising the decision as giving free publicity to print media.

The SABC says there’s “nothing sinister” about the move.

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