The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board said it disagreed with a Johannesburg High Court ruling on Monday, which set aside the suspension of CEO Dali Mpofu. Judge Moroa Tsoka said the entire matter was handled badly by board chairperson Khanyi Mkhonza.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive Dali Mpofu’s move to suspend his news chief Snuki Zikalala was the last straw that prompted his own suspension, according to court papers on Thursday. Mpofu has launched an urgent application with the Johannesburg High Court, to challenge his suspension last Wednesday.
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/ 21 November 2007
The number of cellphone banking users in South Africa more than doubled in the past year, according to research released by World Wide Worx on Tuesday. "This year was a tipping point for all aspects of mobile," World Wide Worx managing director Arthur Goldstuck told reporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 31 October 2007
Business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda Group will buy up to 30 percent of Johnnic Communication’s media unit in a R1.4-billion deal, a Sens announcement said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 October 2007
SABC board chairman Eddie Funde has called for an increase in government funding and a drastic reduction in commercial funding of the public broadcaster. “It’s very unusual for the public broadcaster to be 80 percent commercially funded,” Funde told reporters on Thursday morning.
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/ 18 October 2007
Media24 confirmed on Wednesday that five Touchline Media magazines inflated their circulation figures between July 2005 and June 2007 and that three senior managers including managing director Marc Blachowitz resigned in connection with the irregularities.
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/ 18 October 2007
The Audit Bureau of Circulations has demanded a retraction from marketing analyst Chris Moerdyk for saying the ABC’s integrity has taken a knock in the Media24 circulation debacle.
Once the ugly duckling of the magazine industry, custom publishing has given itself a make-over to become a more competitive – and prettier – player. Fienie Grobler tracks the growth of the local industry against international trends.
Three new radio stations will soon enter the playing fields in North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. They will be the first commercial stations taking on the radio market outside Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Town. Fienie Grobler considers their chances of survival.
<i>Rapport</i> editor Tim du Plessis has been in the game since 1976 and witnessed many affairs between political leaders and the Afrikaans media. That would include Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, Jan Smuts and General De la Rey. Fienie Grobler picked his brain.