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Jacob Zuma, who was charged with rape in Johannesburg on Tuesday, offered his victim a massage before removing her duvet and violating her, according to the indictment against him. Zuma (63) has denied the charge and suspended his participation in leading structures of the African National Congress.
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/ 7 December 2005
The Islamic Army in Iraq, a Sunni Arab extremist group, threatened on Tuesday to kill a United States hostage within 48 hours unless all prisoners in Iraq are released, as new pleas were made for the release of four Western peace activists held by other militants.
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/ 7 December 2005
Ford Motor Company came under fire this week after it was reported to have pulled ads from gay publications in a "secret deal" with a conservative Christian group. The automaker denied that any deal had been made and insisted that the decision to cease advertising its Jaguar and Land Rover brands in gay publications was part of a broad restructuring of the advertising budgets.
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/ 7 December 2005
Here’s a prediction. Expect online advertising to increasingly resemble television commercials. Soon there won’t be too much difference between an advert you see on your box and an advert you see on a website you happen to be visiting. They may even be one and the same thing.
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/ 7 December 2005
Although the TV broadcasters are cagey on how much they spend on local content, the government’s quotas are not something they’re complaining about. Kirsty Laschinger reports on the positive outlook.
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/ 7 December 2005
There is no journalistic privilege in South African law, and as such journalists are liable to jail terms for refusing to disclose confidential sources. Greg Hamburger outlines the legal framework.
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/ 7 December 2005
Without mincing his words (does he ever?), Harry Herber explains his problem with industry bodies. Why doesn’t he or his company join them? And did we ever really need the MFSA?
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/ 7 December 2005
Was Hurricane Katrina a "perfect storm" for the US mainstream media or signs of a sea change in the country’s journalism? Sean Jacobs considers the coverage.
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/ 7 December 2005
In South Africa there’s no broadsheet snobbery of the type David Bullard remembers as a kid in the UK. So why doesn’t the <i>Sunday Times</i> come out in tabloid form?
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Having restored the grande dame of English women’s glossies to its former status, next month Ann Donald bows out of <i>Fairlady</i> after four years at the helm. It could be the quietest departure of an editor in the magazine’s history, writes Sue Grant-Marshall.