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Government wants to control media (media tribunal).We people from around campus, from professors to student and cleaners, and they have different views about how media should be controlled. When its comes democracy they all have same view on what does democracy means to them.

We interviewed cleaners around campus to see how they see democracy and media in South Africa and how our government should control media. Citizens like Ms Nonhlanhla Zungu who is a cleaner in UKZN(Howard college campus sees democracy as being able to do things that we couldn’t do during apartheid, she also see it as being free to express our feeling without discrimination because we protected by constitutional law. Also student like Refilwe Mosia who is law student sees democracy as “equality and farness, being able to express our feeling without a fear of discrimination.

We ask that do political programs improve politics in South Africa or do they make it worse. Refilwe thinks “political programs such as third degree primarily criticize and scrutinize south african politics. Whether they affect the political arena; I think not the status of politics has not change. Ms Toniolo’s view is that “ not having those political programs will be a severe loss for the public because they debate on issues that are entirely sensational and they also debate on political issues ,basically on all issues. She also said they produce contact, invite public to think, prominently they help the public.

When its come to media tribunal, they asked questions like” why do we need media tribunal?”.Ms Zungu sees media tribunal as that “they set boundaries to make sure that the do not cross the line ‘ to make sure that the public is protected. As for Ms toniolo’s view “Government is looking to silence the criticism’ silence voices that disagree with the government, the government should have E.G provides education, houses and so on. To refilwe media simply means the right to freedom of press will be suppressed.