Entertainment

Rosebank provides an array of entertainment to its residents and visitors at a variety of shopping malls, pavement cafes, restaurants, markets, luxurious hotels, cinemas, arts galleries and night clubs.

Art

Rosebank has a thriving art scene with a number of galleries and dealers trading in all mediums along the 'art strip' which includes the more established Goodman and Kim Sacks galleries.

Outdoors

Rosebank is outdoors and pedestrian friendly – Due to its compact size, visitors, residents and employees are able to walk the area, enjoying the outdoor atmosphere, en route to their destination.

Growing

Rosebank's infrastructure projects and property developments augur well for the future of the node. Areas located directly around future Gautrain Stations are attracting great interest.

Newsman arrested in Rosebank

Photo: Was the arrest of Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika the start of the erosion of press freedom?

This occurred as journalists and academics were discussing the threat to media freedom in the same building.

Wa Afrika was apparently arrested in connection with what the Hawks believe is a fraudulent letter of resignation from Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza to President Jacob Zuma.

Opposition parties and media groups expressed concern at the high-profile arrest carried out by plainclothes officers who bundled the journalist into a vehicle.

Wa Afrika and his lawyer were leaving the Avusa building en route to a pre-arranged meeting with police at the Rosebank police station. Sunday Times editor Ray Hartley described the arrest as an "operation which was clearly designed to intimidate".

The DA and Cope expressed concern that Wa Afrika's arrest was aimed at intimidating him and other journalists.

"The brutal action against Wa Afrika is a sign that our country is heading for a police state. This is an attack against our constitutional democracy which we warned against. We call on all South Africans to stand up against all these anti-democracy tendencies," said Cope deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa.
"This incident cannot be viewed in isolation from the disturbing trends to stifle media freedom. As such, we see it as a sinister forewarning of how media freedom will be infringed by the proposed media tribunal and the Protection of Information Bill," said DA leader Helen Zille.

Zille said that the bill posed "the gravest legislative threat to our constitutional democracy since 1994". She pledged that her party would fight the bill "with every means at our disposal".

"Just like under apartheid, the bill will allow the government to invoke the national interest to cover up abuse of power. Documents that contain evidence of corruption, maladministration and dodgy deals are likely to be classifiable in the national interest."

On 22 August, City Press newspaper reported that Cosatu supports the ANC's proposal to set up a Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT) to regulate the media.

But the labour federation wants a different approach to the tribunal to what the ANC suggested, and it said there was a "censorship" risk attached to the tribunal as well as the proposed protection of information bill.

It warned that the tribunal could become a "censorship" tool as editors could decide to hold back stories about ministers for fear of being "hauled before a MAT that is biased towards government's view".
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