MPs chew Media Bill

Repeated calls for more consultations however, could compel Parliament to schedule the committee stage of the bill to its year-end session - sometime in December. More calls for the bill to be taken to the drawing board to allow for more consultation had intensified by the time Parliament adjourned its discussions on the proposed law on Tuesday

Opposition MP, Isaac Mabiletsa, already having made comment in the middle of the week, has also tabled a notice of amendments to the controversial bill. The MP is seeking to remove the hand of the minister responsible for the state media from direct intervention in the daily workings of the press council.