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/ 18 October 2007
The Audit Bureau of Circulations has demanded a retraction from marketing analyst Chris Moerdyk for saying the ABC’s integrity has taken a knock in the Media24 circulation debacle.
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/ 18 October 2007
The arrest or otherwise of <i>Sunday Times</i> editor Mondli Makhanya on charges of breaching the Health Act is not the key media freedom issue. The newspaper denies stealing or paying for Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s hospital file and argues that its publication of details contained in it was justified on public interest grounds.
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/ 18 October 2007
Media24 confirmed on Wednesday that five Touchline Media magazines inflated their circulation figures between July 2005 and June 2007 and that three senior managers including managing director Marc Blachowitz resigned in connection with the irregularities.
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/ 18 October 2007
The disgraced and sacked former ANC chief whip and sex pest, Mbulelo Goniwe, is being “protected” by a long and protracted disciplinary process so that he can attend the national conference in Polekwane as an ANC member, party insiders say. Goniwe, one of President Thabo Mbeki’s strongest allies, was expelled from the ANC last year after the party’s national disciplinary committee, headed by Kader Asmal, found him guilty of sexual harassment.
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/ 18 October 2007
On April 27 1968 the vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, announced his presidential candidacy. It was a particularly troubled moment in the United States’s recent history. Just three weeks after Martin Luther King’s assassination, the cities were still scarred by riots while the country as a whole was deeply divided over the Vietnam war.
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/ 18 October 2007
Film director Francis Ford Coppola has attacked three of the biggest stars in Hollywood, denouncing them for being lazy and uninterested in taking risks. Coppola told GQ magazine that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro — both in his Godfather trilogy — and Jack Nicholson had been spoilt by success and lost the fire that had made them raging bulls.
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/ 17 October 2007
A ruling by a full bench of the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday put another nail in the coffin of Afrikaans-only education in state schools. The court dismissed with costs a review application by Hoërskool Ermelo to set aside a decision forcing it to admit English-speaking pupils and become a parallel-medium school.
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/ 17 October 2007
The wife of President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday unveiled a new statue of anti-apartheid leader Oliver Tambo in the north London suburb where he was exiled for 30 years. Zanele Mbeki joined Britain’s Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, and other dignitaries to take the wraps off the bust in a park in Muswell Hill, near where Tambo lived from 1960 to 1990.
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/ 17 October 2007
South Africa must do more to raise awareness of HIV/Aids amid rising child deaths and over one million children orphaned by the disease, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said Wednesday. ”Each year, 100Â 000 children contract Aids in South Africa, and half of them die before the age of two,” Unicef’s representative in the country, Macharia Kamau, said.
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/ 17 October 2007
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota’s ”hostility” towards the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was reflected in his ”ignorance” of its policies, presented as an alternative to those of the government, Cosatu said on Wednesday. Lekota had challenged Cosatu in a radio broadcast to ”present alternative policy positions to those of the ruling party”.