Fred Khumalo reminisces about the good old days of typewriters and wonders he should bow to pressure to start his own blog. <
<i>City Press</i> editor Mathatha Tsedu’s vision of creating a "distinctly African" newspaper is finally paying off. For the first time in four years, it sold more than 200,000 copies. Matebello Motloung asks him why this strategy failed with the <i>Sunday Times</i> and where he is taking his newspaper.
Tabloid journalists often complain that journalism awards discriminate against their genre. But perhaps the industry is justified in doing so, argues Matebello Motloung.
Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha confirmed on Wednesday that he had handed over a R500 000 donation to South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande. ”I am willing to go to the courts to prove that indeed this did happen,” Madisha said.
Financial markets the world over are once again in turmoil. The successive international financial crises of the 1990s, and of 2001, demonstrated that we live in an age of volatility. These events prompted emerging market economies to work hard to improve their national balance sheets by adjusting their fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies, and to promote economic diversification, writes Lesetja Kganyago.
Since she was sacked, former deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has received unprecedented support. This reflects respect for her work in the health portfolio and serious concern about the manner in which the president exercised executive power when he fired her, writes Fatima Hassan and Mark Heywood.
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At the very moment when it should be offering a different approach to politics, the SACP has got itself into a right pickle on the money front. With Thabo Mbeki doing his very best King Lear impression — minus the truculent daughters, but replete with one-eyed errors of judgement — SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande is no less on the back foot.
Space shuttle Endeavour returned to its Florida home port on Tuesday, touching down safely at the Kennedy Space Centre following a hectic but successful 13-day mission to the International Space Station. Commander Scott Kelly gently steered the 100-tonne spaceship through breezy, blue skies before nosing Endeavour down on to a 4,8km runway.
The African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary caucus has expressed concern over the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) stance in the saga between the Sunday Times and Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.