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A pioneer’s path in the blogsphere

Article Matthew Buckland - 26 Jul 2019

In the mid-2000s, Matthew Buckland took over the M&G’s website, and gave it a new lease on life. First, though, he had to fight an ownership battle

Out of Africa: The tales that wag the blog

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 27 Feb 2014

A little blog out of New York called Africa is a Country has become a loud voice for the continent, whether it likes it or not.

200 YSA 2013: A fashionable blogger

Videos Staff Reporter - 4 Jun 2013

VIDEO: Meet Malibongwe Tyilo, a creative who is putting local fashion and design in the multimedia spotlight. He is an M&G 200 Young South African.

Introducing Africa’s voicebox

Videos Staff Reporter - 13 Feb 2013

Voices of Africa is the M&G’s new blogging platform.It showcases stories of life in different parts of the continent that the world doesn't hear often enough.

China shuts down websites after coup rumours

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Mar 2012

China has shut down websites, made a string of arrests and punished two popular microblogs after rumours of a coup linked to a major political drama.

Mbeki: Beware the ‘false knowledge’ kindled by Twitter

Article Stuart Graham - 17 Jan 2012

Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups' agendas.

Going to the blogs

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Jul 2011

The knives are out in the food writers' kitchen with the new media giving the established press indigestion.

Bloggers crack invites from Vatican to first blog summit

Article Staff Reporter - 3 May 2011

The Vatican on Monday invited 150 bloggers from around the world to a first-ever blogging summit, increasingly aware of the importance of blogging.

Why people blog about illness

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Jan 2011

Hundreds of bloggers write about their illness or trauma every day. <b>Sue Eckstein<b> explains why.

Everyone’s invited to the birthday bash for Blogger

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Sep 2009

Forty years ago, the first two computers on the Arpanet, the military network that was the precursor to the internet, exchanged login information.

The Fifth Column

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Oct 2008

The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.

Online catharsis

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Sep 2008

For many people with serious illnesses, blogging offers a way to cope and share their stories, writes Joanna Moorhead.

Homeboy blogger wins big

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Sep 2008

One of Thought Leader's most popular bloggers has been named winner of the "innovative use of the Internet" award at the Highway Africa conference.

Long live bloggers

Article Staff Reporter - 10 May 2007

Everyone knows <i>Sunday Times</i> columnist David Bullard has enough vitriol to run a small vehicle for a month.

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The tender that keeps on giving

Athandiwe Saba - 18 Sep 2020

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SANDF mum on serial rapist claim

Sabelo Skiti - 17 Sep 2020

An internal report on sexual offences at a military academy says the defence force failed a deceased rape victim and has called for an internal investigation

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special reports - 15 Sep 2020

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OSISA seeks a Programme Manager: Economic Justice

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