SABC chief Hlaudi Motsoeneng wants all journalists to apply for a licence. Wadim Schreiner sketches the scenario. It’s a cold winter’s day in June 2016, 8am in the morning. A long queue of... Read more
Hlaudi Motsoeneng is absolutely the ideal man for the job as chief operating officer (COO) of the SABC. Well, that is the only logical conclusion I can come to. Think about it. The African N... Read more
The unseemly infighting among members of the SABC’s board of directors has spilled its guts into the public arena, with controversial acting (or former acting?) COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng at the... Read more
APOLOGY: The Media Online apologises to the SABC for an inadvertent error in the posting of the broadcaster’s response to an opinion piece we published recently. An earlier version of... Read more
“I have the idea that in our society today we are being subjected to competing one- dimensional theses. One is that of the ANC and its allies that treats with suspicion and with hostility a... Read more
“Haffajee rightly calls for more investigative journalism. However, one must realise (as she undoubtedly does) that the undue expectations we have of print media (who are, let’s face it, pri... Read more
