Marianne Merten
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/ 21 October 2000

So much for Media Freedom Day ?

THE government has been slammed for trampling press freedom and “returning to the old apartheid days” after police stormed international and local media offices in South Africa and seized video footage as evidence against a Muslim vigilante leader facing murder and terrorism charges. National prosecution official Sipho Ngwema said the police confiscated footage of the […]

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/ 22 December 1995

Now Wits is the Cape of storms

Wits could take a leaf from UCT’s book on managing transformation, writes Philippa THE embattled vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand must be glancing enviously from his turbulent empire to that picture of tranquillity nestling in Table Mountain’s aprons — the University of Cape Town. As Wits struggles to contain the crisis around accusations […]