Riaan Wolmarans
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/ 7 September 2007

Lights, camera, rugby!

The 2007 Rugby World Cup kicked off in France on Friday night, filling the Cup stadium in Paris with colour and movement in a somewhat bizarre ceremony that was shorter and much less grandiose than those of soccer and the Olympics. Thousands of spectators watched as drummers surrounded the field and beat out loud rhythms on big, red oil drums as planes flew past trailing red and blue smoke.

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/ 26 July 2007

Mail & Guardian gag remains

After being pulled off shelves early on Friday last week following a temporary court interdict, the Mail & Guardian is still unable to report on an explosive final draft of an internal audit report of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). On Thursday, Judge Justice Poswa granted the applicant, a senior SABC executive, a further postponement of the matter.

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/ 20 July 2007

M&G gagged over SABC report

The Mail & Guardian has been gagged. Again. In the early hours of Friday morning in the Pretoria High Court, a judge interdicted the M&G from publishing the details of an explosive final draft of an internal report into alleged corruption, abuse of power and intimidation at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

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/ 4 June 2007

World’s newspapers usher in digital age

African song and dance welcomed delegates on Monday to the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town – the first time the events have graced Africa, as keynote speaker President Thabo Mbeki pointed out to journalists, editors and media practitioners gathered from 109 countries.