Africa: An Ifex Right-to-Information Podcast Featuring Special Rapporteur Pansy Tlakula

"Yes, journalists have the right of access to information, but this is a right that everybody's entitled to, particularly ordinary people," Advocate Pansy Tlakula told me in a telephone conversation in January.

Tlakula, who is the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, was referring to the common misconception that access to information is a right that only journalists should worry about.

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