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/ 23 September 2004
Week after week, a Durban Daily News reporter stole massive chunks of copy from a website in the United States and passed it off as his own. And the reporter, Keeran Sewsunker, who is probably South Africa’s worst serial plagiarist, is still at his desk. The American magazine is now threatening legal action.
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/ 3 September 2004
An interdict to prevent the Mail & Guardian from publishing was dismissed with costs in the High Court at 3am on Friday morning, after the attempt to gag the newspaper was launched at midnight by lawyers acting for the National Council of Provinces and its chairperson, Joyce Kgoali.
MPs who tried to cover their assets
While some disgruntled customers would probably like to see South African telecommunications giant Telkom burn in hell, the parastatal this week took exception to the popular website Hellkom and threatened the creator with a R5-million lawsuit for copyright infringement.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=120223">Telkom sues website owner for R5m</a>
<i>ThisDay</i>, South Africa’s newest daily newspaper, is taking legal action against a website owner in the United Kingdom who it says has snatched its domain name. Newshounds after the latest headlines from the website will probably get more than they bargained for — including a limousine with two escorts for hire, at R6 000.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is to turn to South African courts to force President Thabo Mbeki to hand over a report by two judges on Zimbabwe’s disputed election. The Democratic Alliance in South Africa on Tuesday said it will raise questions in Parliament about the judges’ delegation.
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) said on Monday it was generally disappointed with the South African media’s coverage of the general election, and that smaller political parties got too little airtime. Each time a party was mentioned in the media, it was entered into the NGO’s database.
Madam is white and middle-class and Eve is her black maid. They are rivals and yet accomplices. Together, the two leading ladies of a wildly popular cartoon strip have entertained the new South Africa for more than 10 years. The strip is now carried in about 12 newspapers as well as in the Mail & Guardian Online.
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/ 26 February 2004
Homeless Talk, most often seen on the dashboards of the well-heeled from Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, is now going online. News provider I-Net Bridge said this week that it will be bringing the popular community newspaper to its subscribers at a cost of R500 a month.
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/ 19 January 2004
Alleged nuclear weapons dealer Asher Karni was fired from a South African company last year after it emerged that he had been secretly trading under his own name, said National chairperson of the Jewish Board of Deputies and labour lawyer Michael Bagraim. Bagraim told the Mail & Guardian Online on Monday that he had dismissed Karni at a disciplinary hearing last year.
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/ 15 December 2003
Mondli Makhanya has resigned as editor of the Mail & Guardian and is to become the editor of the Sunday Times from February 1 next year. Announcing Makhanya’s departure, Trevor Ncube, CEO of M&G Media, credited Makhanya with ”turning the M&G around”.