Last week, the University of South Africa (Unisa) asked the Gauteng High Court to interdict and silence a journalist before a single word of evidence had been tested. Unisa wanted Pragasen Edwin Naidu, the publisher of the education-sector outlet ednews.africa, to take down three articles about staff deaths, hospitalisations and burnout at the university, to apologise unconditionally, and to be interdicted from ever again suggesting the university bears any responsibility for what happened to its own employees.
