THE government in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s most impoverished regions, has started a monthly newspaper with a projected budget of more than R1-million for the next six months.
Acting premier Smuts Ngonyama said the Eastern Cape Review, launched in Bisho on Wednesday, would be a vehicle for communication, focusing on development issues. ”It is not intended to be used as a mechanism to deal with criticism levelled against the government. It is purely a vehicle for communicating facts and information with a view to promoting public awareness.”
The 16-page publication has an initial print run of 50 000 and will be distributed free of charge from subregional government offices in Umtata, Kokstad, Queenstown, East London and Port Elizabeth.- Sapa