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/ 23 January 2007
Trevor Ncube, the chief executive of the Mail & Guardian, said on Tuesday that he was ”delighted” that the Zimbabwe High Court in Harare would meet on January 24 to consider the threat to withdraw his Zimbabwean citizenship. The Zimbabwe government is preventing Ncube from renewing his passport, claiming he is not a citizen of Zimbabwe.
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/ 26 November 2006
Matthew Burbidge goes nose to nose with a Groote Post at new concept store, Winesense.
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/ 7 November 2006
Culinary-minded DStv subscribers in Africa seem to be lapping up their daily six-hour dollop of food television on the month-old BBC Food channel. Little wonder, because when Carlton Food Network’s Taste channel went belly-up earlier this year it seemed to leave a yawning gap that not even one of Antony Worrall Thompson’s sticky puddings could […]
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/ 22 October 2006
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive Dali Mpofu’s inquiry into two of his top staff has no basis in the ”blacklisting” report, said the Democratic Alliance on Sunday in reaction to Mpofu’s media announcement of disciplinary proceedings against news chief Snuki Zikalala and SAfm presenter John Perlman.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Online Publishers Association (OPA) on Thursday cautiously welcomed the announcement of further consultation on South Africa’s controversial Film and Publications Amendment Bill. The OPA has raised strong concerns over the impractical nature of implementing the legislation for online media.
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/ 16 October 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation said on Monday its group chief executive, Dali Mpofu, was reconsidering his options after the M&G Online published a report on the blacklisting of certain analysts and commentators by the broadcaster over the weekend.
Naspers took the plunge last week when it merged its digital division with MWeb Studios, the division responsible for the development of web-based services, to form local internet portal <i>24.com</i>. CEO Kim Reid said: "We think the South African internet environment is ready for an offering like this."
As tens of thousands of foreigners and Lebanese fled the country by air, sea and land this week, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora lashed out at Israel, saying it was "opening the gates of hell and madness" on his country. In a BBC interview, he urged Hizbullah to release two captured Israeli soldiers, but said Israel’s response to the crisis had been disproportionate.
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Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s former deputy president, took aim at the media on Monday, suing publishers, editors, reporters, a cartoonist and newspapers for their coverage and comment of his rape trial. The defamation claims run into hundreds of millions of rands, much of it directed at reporters and editors of Independent Newspapers.
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/ 1 December 2005
On May 25 this year, Zimbabwe’s government began a massive campaign of forced evictions and demolitions. Six months later, says a damning Human Rights Watch report released on Thursday, the government has made no arrangements to provide even temporary shelter to the internally displaced. Thousands of people are now living in the open.