Claim 181

A government gazette notice made it an offense under the emergency regulations to take any sound or visual recording of a riot situation.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: A government gazette notice made it an offense under the emergency regulations to take any sound or visual recording of a riot situation.
Field: action
Value: Recording riots made an offense
About: incident 1985-south-africa-state-of-emergency-media-ban
Source: South Africa Saturday issued a ban on all television...
Publisher: UPI Archives
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 1985-11-02

Quotation from the source

It is an offense under the emergency regulations to take a recording (sound or visual) of any riot situation.