When we allow a culture of impunity to exist where authoritarians are allowed to go after journalists, harass them, arrest them, beat them in the streets and kill them, it has a knock-on effect, he said.
“Xa sivumela isiko lokungohlwaywa ukuba libekho apho oozwilakhe bevunyelwa ukuba baye emva kweentatheli, bazixhaphaze, bababambe, bazibethe ezitalatweni bazibulale, loo nto ibaneziphumo,” utshilo.