OPINION: I for one would love to believe that if people aren’t reading your newspaper, it’s thanks to a racist campaign, rather than poor content or economics. A few months back, audience figures came out from Amps, apparently showing that the number of readers of the Cape Times had grown from 200 000 to 234 […] Read more
If the competition tribunal agrees with Caxton’s Moolman and rules that there has been a ‘merger’, it will have deep implications. Last week, Caxton founder Terry Moolman took an almighty dip at archrival Naspers at the competition tribunal, in a curious spat with deep implications for the cash-strapped SABC. The background is that in July […] Read more
OPINION: Moneyweb’s looming court clash with Media24 for plagiarism of its content will have big implications for the business of news, says Rob Rose. In a few weeks, business website Moneyweb will clash with Naspers’s Media24 in the high court in a case with serious implications for the business of news. The story dates back […] Read more
OPINION: What does Shoprite CEO Whitey Basson apparently feel so insecure about that he needs to keep an iron fist over what’s written about him? Rob Rose takes a look. A few weeks ago, this newspaper [Sunday Times] published an interview with Basson in which he displayed the famously direct approach that makes his year-end […] Read more