South Africa’s newest — and richest — journalism prize was on Thursday awarded to two investigative reporters of Beeld newspaper. Mail & Guardian and Sunday Tribune investigative teams share the second prize of R100Â 000.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s investigative team of Sam Sole, Nic Dawes, Zukile Majova and Stefaans Brümmer were jointly awarded the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for South African story of the year on Wednesday for their story "The Kebble-Selebi link". The quartet also won the award for best investigative journalism.
Hannah Botha, one of South Africa’s veteran actors and a star of M-Net’s soap opera Egoli, has died at the age of 84. Botha died in Johannesburg on the morning of April 16, Beeld newspaper reported. She was admitted to hospital at the weekend as she was not feeling well.
The South African newspaper market needs no spies to keep a nervous eye on a newcomer armed with 127Â 000 instant readers. As the Sunday Times‘s daily version, simply titled the Times, gears up for a June launch, its editor, Ray Hartley, is blogging about the birthing pangs.
Turn or burn — that’s the simple ultimatum posed by fundamentalist Christians protesting on the sidelines of Gay Pride marches. But the issue is anything but clear-cut: American Episcopalians have caused an uproar in the global Anglican community by supporting gay rights, and a similar clash of religious will exists among South Africa’s major Afrikaans churches.
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/ 22 February 2007
Intense Cyclone Favio, sweeping in after wreaking havoc in Madagascar, hit the coast of Mozambique on Thursday morning. Margie Toens, who lives on the beachfront in Vilankulo, south of Bazaruto, told the Mail & Guardian Online on Thursday that the situation was ”horrible” and that trees were crashing down around her house.
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/ 12 February 2007
Long-time Mail & Guardian columnist Robert Kirby died in Cape Town on Friday night following a long illness. A significant satirist especially in the 1970s, Kirby also worked as a broadcaster, television columnist, playwright and novelist. He became famous in South Africa for his sharp wit and fearless satire.
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/ 11 February 2007
Long-time Mail & Guardian columnist Robert Kirby died in Cape Town on Friday night following a long illness. A significant satirist especially in the 1970s, Kirby also worked as a broadcaster, television columnist, playwright and novelist. He became famous in South Africa for his sharp wit and fearless satire.
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/ 9 February 2007
A journalist working for South African free-to-air television station e.tv and at least one assistant were arrested in eastern Zimbabwe this week while trying to report on illegal dealings in the diamond-rich Marange district, the station told the Mail & Guardian Online on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2007
Zimbabwe’s Media and Information Commission this week issued publishing licences for the Zimbabwe Independent and the Standard, published by Mail & Guardian chief executive Trevor Ncube, despite recent fears that a much-criticised crackdown on media freedom would also affect these newspapers.