Mzwanele Manyi’s newly acquired publication, The New Age, has been caught plagiarising copy from GroundUp not once, but twice this year. Read more
On 19 October, South Africans commemorate the banning of the World, the Weekend World and the detention of their journalists in 1977. This was a time when the apartheid state restricted the... Read more
South Africa’s mainstream print media is once again at the receiving end of severe criticism. In the June-August 2015 period alone, some African National Congress (ANC)-aligned senior politi... Read more
The past two weeks have seen clear divisions in how the media, or mostly print media, is perceived and its role in a democratic South Africa. The pieces by Moegsien Williams of The New Age,... Read more
The search is on for the South African of the Year. The person who wins the honour might not be famous. They certainly won’t be dead. And they could come from a number of disciplines such as... Read more
Jessie Duarte, deputy secretary general of the ANC, has always been outspoken about the media and its role. After years of interaction with it as Nelson Mandela’s right hand person after he... Read more
