The journey to notorious Sebele

With intelligence information filtering in, we knew it was only a matter of time before they pounced on us. They were hell-bent on hitting on us, to send a clear message to the industry and perhaps, cow us into submission.

There has been outrage at the DIS that we were unduly benefitting from the spy agency’s internal documents, which the agency considers a security threat, hence the crack on journalists. It was oblivious to the DIS that a crack on us was a crack on press freedom, which is a pillar of democracy.