A group led by current CEO James Whitehouse has been selected to buy movie company Sasani’s remaining assets for around R130-million. The deal still requires regulatory and shareholder approval but could be concluded shortly. Sasani announced recently that the Whitehouse consortium was the preferred bidder for its assets.

A reduced version of Afrikaans Sunday paper Die Wêreld will be published on Sunday after all, but the future of the paper still looks shaky. Editor Maryna Blomerus today confirmed that a smaller than usual print run will be distributed only in Gauteng, but could not say exactly how many copies would be printed.

Both Telkom and MTN will announce that they made bucketloads of money in the past financial year. Neither will be able to entirely convince shareholders that the good times will continue indefinitely. Telkom plans to present its results on Monday.

Staff at Afrikaans Sunday newspaper <i>Die Wêreld</i> have not been paid their salaries for May and unless a white knight is found, the paper will not be published this Sunday. <i>Die Wêreld</i> published its first issue in mid-April and has been moving towards being a fairly traditional tabloid.

Movie company Sasani could announce a final deal to dispose of its remaining assets within a week to ten days, closing the book on its short existence as a JSE-listed one-stop-shop for the film industry.

The massive South African Airways (SAA) advertising account is likely to come up for tender some time this year and – if rumours hold true – incumbent HerdBuoys McCann-Erickson may find the going tough. The SAA account is one of the largest and most prestigious in the country. Pitching for it has been a close-run thing in the past.

Threatened legislation meant to discourage whistle-blowing or to punish those who release information that causes public panic is unlikely to pass muster, lawyers say. But the media has reason to be afraid of the shoot-the-messenger thinking behind the concept.

The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) hopes to appoint an editor for a planned bi-monthly magazine by the end of May and could be distributing around a million magazines by September. The as-yet unnamed magazine will aim to "disseminate information about economic opportunities to those who need to improve their lives".

What does the demise of <i>ThisDay</i> tell us about the daily newspaper model in South Africa? Phillip de Wet analyses the reasons behind his former employer’s downfall and asks whether the remaining crop are comparatively healthy.