CONSTITUTIONAL
COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA Case No. CCT 23/10
In the Matter Between: THE CITIZEN 1978 (PTY) LIMITED KEVIN KEOGH MARTIN WilLIAMS ANDREW KENNEY and ROBERT JOHN McBRIDE
First Applicant Second Applicant Third Applicant Fourth Applicant Respondent
ON APPEALFROMTHE SUPREMECOURTOF APPEAL
AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF lARA JOHNSTONE, MEMBEROF RADICAL HONESTYCULTURE AND RELIGION, IN SUPPORTOF A COMMON SENSEPOPULATION POLICY SOCIAL CONTRACT INTERPRETATIONOF THE PROMOTIONOF NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATIONACT, 34 OF 1995 Written Statement by Consent of T. Michael Maher, Ph.D, to testify as expert witness for How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection and Media Framing and Salience of the Population Issue
I the undersigned, T. Michael Maher, herewith confirm: I have a Ph.D. in Journalism, from the University of Texas, at Austin; 1995. My Ph.D. dissertation title, Media Framing and Salience of the Population Issue, included (i) The Triumph of Anthropocentrism at World Population Conferences (1999), and (ii) Population: The Once and Future Environmental Crisis (1995). I am the author of the study, How and Why Journalists Avoid the PopulationEnvironment Connection, published in Population and Environment, Volume 18, Number 4, March 1977 I have been the Professor and Head of the Dept. of Communication at the University of louisiana, since November 1974 (became Head in 2003); Fulbright Professor, at the University of Regensburg, Germany (Sept. '07 - July '08). I am aware that my Ph.D dissertation Media Framing and Salience of the Population Issue and report How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection are being submitted into evidence as Common Sense Population Policy Social Contract authorities in this Amicus matter. Should any party dispute any of my statements or conclusions in my aforementioned authorities; I am willing to testify as an expert witness. under oath and be cross examined on such issues, on the following conditions: