Two of the Mail & Guardian‘s journalists, John Matshikiza and Thebe Mabanga, were recognised at Vodacom’s Journalist of the Year awards. Matshikiza shared his prize in the Specialist Print Category with the Cape Times‘s Melanie Gosling.

Ammonia nitrate, a common white crystal fertilizer widely used by farmers, may be brought under regulation if the new Explosives Bill and comment by a senior legislator is anything to go by.

In a marked shift of emphasis, the South African Human Rights Commission is bracing itself to tackle the government on poverty and service provision during its new seven-year term. Under former chairperson Barney Pityana the HRC’s main focus was on race and gender.

The new Broadcasting Amendment Bill promises to sink public service broadcasting and visit an accounting nightmare on the SABC’s journalists, who would have to keep track of sources of revenue streams and the placement of stories and programmes on the corporation’s radio and television channels.

Civil-society preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in August are back in full swing following the release this week of a R3-million injection by the National Development Agency (NDA)