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/ 15 October 2008
Like many people,Ronald Suresh Roberts may think Thabo Mbeki’s dissident views on Aids ”flat earth crap”.
The press ombudsman has dismissed a complaint from Ronald Suresh Roberts over a story the Weekender wrote on accusations of plagiarism.
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>’s <i>Thought Leader</i> </a>, where some of South Africa’s finest minds stir up debate every day, on Wednesday evening scooped South African web log of the year at the 2008 SA Blog Awards, beating formidable competition.
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/ 17 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>Thousands of delegates to the ANC’s 52nd national conference converged on Polokwane International Airport on Saturday to register in a cavernous hangar for the event. The regiÂÂstration hangar was a free-for-all for groups supporting either Thabo Mbeki or Jacob Zuma.
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/ 16 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>The first group of delegates to the African National Congress’s 52nd national conference arrived at the University of Limpopo on Sunday. Singing and clapping, the delegates from the North West Province said they would vote for party president Thabo Mbeki. "Mbeki is the most rational leader, we have ever had. We are just here to affirm the third term [for Mbeki]."
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/ 15 December 2007
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An atmosphere of excited anticipation took hold in a hot Polokwane, Limpopo province, on Saturday as thousands of delegates to the African National Congress’s (ANC) 52nd national conference arrived by bus, car and taxi. Buses from all over the country jostled for space with large pedestrian groups of ANC supporters from various provinces.
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/ 24 October 2007
The South African Broadcasting Corporation would be within its rights not to run a story on Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, but media diversity is important in ensuring that other outlets can run it if they choose to, African National Congress (ANC) politician and businessman Saki Macozoma said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 October 2007
Under no circumstances should a patient’s medical records be disclosed unless he or she gives personal consent, a seminar hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission was told on Tuesday. A panel was discussing the implications of articles published by the Sunday Times about Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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/ 20 October 2007
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya was accused of lying about his ”imminent arrest” by South African Broadcasting Corporation group chief executive Dali Mpofu and writer Ronald Suresh Roberts at a conference in Sandton on Friday.
Cape Town lawyer Christine Qunta on Monday welcomed the Sunday Times‘s retraction of defamatory statements made by the newspaper against her, saying the apology was proof that the principle of media accountability was being upheld.
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/ 30 September 2007
Rapule Tabane writes of the diversity among black voices (Mail & Guardian, September 21 2007) but after reading his article I was left with more questions than answers. Questions such as: What shade of opinion accurately reflects the media? How is it that the ”many shades of opinion” and ”many unwinnable debates” end up in just one debate between just two kinds of opinion, right (media) and wrong (media critics)?
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/ 21 September 2007
<b>COMEDY OF THE WEEK (FOR SHEER NERVE):</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the Afrikaans comedy <i>Poena Is Koning</i>
The work on show at CAPE 07 could open doors to a new art audience. Andrew Lamprecht weighs up the possibilities.