The heavy-handed response to the Brett Murray’s painting raises the ominous spectre of the state silencing dissent, writes Anne McClintock
City Press has opted to remove "The Spear" from its website, despite the apparent failure of the ANC’s call for a boycott on the paper.
Judge Willem Heath’s allegations about Thabo Mbeki may yet cost President Zuma’s latest appointee his newly reacquired job as the head of the SIU.
A local publication reported on Sunday that presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj may have broken the law he hopes to use to prosecute journalists.
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/ 27 November 2011
Mac Maharaj’s 2003 interview with the Scorpions — which the <i>M&G</i> was prevented from printing — has been published in the <i>City Press</i>.
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/ 31 October 2011
Twitter had mixed reactions about reports of Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula’s affair with a model. Here’s how it played out.
Fikile Mbalula says he will not respond to a <i>City Press</i> story implicating him in a sex scandal after failing to buy more time to comment.
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/ 4 September 2011
The boy in a Facebook picture lying apparently lifeless while a white man stands over his body with a rifle is alive, the <i>City Press</i> says.
Eric Miyeni has joined his voice to Julius Malema’s as SA editors expressed solidarity with the target of the sacked columnist’s ire, Ferial Haffajee.
<i>City Press</i> editor Ferial Haffajee is to take Eric Miyeni to court over his <i>Sowetan</i> column titled "Haffajee does it for white masters".
Julius Malema has spoken out on reports of a "secret" trust being used to launder bribes, saying he plans to sue <i>City Press</i> for defamation.
The ANCYL’s racist rhetoric legitimises all extremists, no matter their skin colour.
<em>City Press</em> editor Ferial Haffajee must resign, Limpopo premier, Cassel Mathale, said on Tuesday.
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/ 7 December 2010
The widow of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, the son of former <em>City Press</em> editor Mathatha Tsedu, was found guilty of her husband’s murder on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2010
An expert found that former <em>City Press</em> editor Mathatha Tsedu’s son, Avhatakali Netshisaulu, was burnt alive in his car.
A complaint lodged against the City Press for calling the subject of a story a right wing group was dismissed by the ombudsman.
Deputy press ombudsman Johan Retief has found <em>City Press</em> guilty of breaching the press code in an article about ANC’s Mathews Phosa.
Journalists ask how youth league can access private information, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.
<i>City Press</i> has challenged ANCYL president Julius Malema to take legal action if he truly believed a newspaper reporter faked his signature.
The ANC has lodged a formal complaint with the press ombudsman about articles in the Sunday Times and the City Press.
The saga of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has won the Mail & Guardian‘s investigations team the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for story of the year, it was announced on Wednesday evening at the seventh annual awards ceremony held at the Wanderers club in Johannesburg.
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/ 3 February 2008
South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande has accused City Press newspaper of adopting an ”extremely hostile attitude” towards African National Congress president Jacob Zuma. Nzimande tears into the paper in an open letter published on Sunday for ”deliberately” writing about the party in a ”provocatively factionalist, divisive and highly subjective manner”.
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/ 28 January 2008
The trial of three people accused of the murder of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, son of City Press editor Mathatha Tsedu, was postponed to July 28 at the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. Initially six people faced charges of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, kidnapping and malicious damage to property.
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/ 26 September 2007
The controversial documentary <i>Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki</i> will be screened on SABC3 next Wednesday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said. "We’ve got the tape, the final copy, and it will be shown on October 3 at 9.30pm," said spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago.