Ray Hartley's explanation about the Sunday Times's controversial front page has left users on local social networks as skeptical as ever.

Cope said its former election coordinator Mlungisi Hlongwane, who returned to the ANC on Thursday, was suspected of being an ANC mole.

Newspaper columnist Jon Qwelane on Wednesday at a public forum organised by the South African Human Rights Commission refused to apologise for calling a former colleague a "coconut" for objecting to a recent, blacks-only Forum of Black Journalists event. The forum discussion was frank and at times heated.