SECTOR 2 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 4.1 (2010: 4.8; 2008: 5.0; 2006: 4.8) 2.3 The editorial independence of print media published by a public authority is protected adequately against undue political interference. There are no major mainstream daily or weekly newspapers published by the state, although there is a growing trend for municipalities, such as in Cape Town, to produce their own newspapers. Some panellists criticised them for this, saying that the publications are for the municipalities’ own purposes, but they are attracting commercial advertising and thus competing unfairly with private, commercial and community publications. The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) department publishes a state-funded, monthly tabloid newspaper called Vuk’uzenzele, which is isiXhosa, for ‘Don’t wait for others! Get up and do it for yourself!’. It has a print run of 1, 7 million copies and is distributed largely door-to-door in deep rural, rural and peri-urban areas. It is published mostly in English, but also in all the official languages, with a Braille version for the visually impaired. There is also a government news agency online called the SA Government News Agency (formerly known as BuaNews), which, like the Vuk’uzenzele tabloid above, publishes news and information about government programmes, focusing on education, safety and security, health, job security and rural development. “There is definitely no editorial independence, and no attempt even at such independence, with any of these publications 34 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER SOUTH AFRICA 2013