Self-regulation is the way to go

Mbeki killed two birds with one stone. He first pointed out, in response to whether there was dialogue among the Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders, about the protection and cultivation of public media and the abolition of the state form of press, that:

*There was no state media in south Africa; and
* Ownership and management of the press in that country did not sufficiently reflect the relative sizes of the racial groupings that were the cornerstone of apartheid policy prior to 1994.