The coalitions that will soon take place will determine the course of South Africa for years to come
The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim
Sanef has expressed concern over government’s failure to sign off on protocol regarding reporting on former president Nelson Mandela’s health.
The press ombudsman has lashed out at some media houses for ignoring complaints about published articles.
But the trade union federation stops short of calling for a mandatory media tribunal.
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/ 9 November 2011
Sanef and the Right2Know campaign have welcomed the possible inclusion of a public interest defence in the Protection of State Information Bill.
The cartoonist believes it is too prescriptive and ignores the creative freedom of artists.
Sanef is among the key players not asked to attend parliamentary discussion on transformation.
The <em>Sowetan</em> newspaper apologised to <em>City Press</em> editor Ferial Haffajee on Thursday for publishing an insulting column.
Eric Miyeni has called for Avusa to fire its editor-in-chief after the <i>Sowetan</i>’s acting editor quit over the column that got Miyeni fired.
Axed <i>Sowetan</i> columnist Eric Miyeni is considering taking legal action against the paper for sacking him over his column about Ferial Haffajee.
Sanef is setting up an "eminent persons’ panel" to investigate ways to strengthen and reform the print media’s self-regulation system.
The SA National Editors’ Forum’s chair has laid the blame for the abysmal relationship between the media and the state squarely at Jimmy Manyi’s feet.
Sanef is to hold an urgent meeting to discuss a "deteriorating relationship" between itself and government communications head Jimmy Manyi.
A photographer allegedly assaulted by VIP protection unit bodyguards in Durban on Wednesday said he was thinking about pressing charges.
As editors met on Wednesday to discuss the "horrors" of an ANC onslaught against media freedom, the Hawks arrested a <i>Sunday Times</i> journalist.
A media tribunal would be an "imposition" on media freedom, press ombudsman Joe Thloloe warned on Friday.
Two strikingly different speeches — one saying goodbye, and the other saying hello. Two moods and two different styles.
South Africa does not need the likes of sacked Sunday Times columnist David Bullard, Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan said on Tuesday. ”He is the type of person South Africa does not need within its borders,” he told a media briefing at Parliament.
Controversial former Sunday Times columnist David Bullard has offered his ”sincere and heartfelt apologies” to those who were offended by his now-discontinued satirical Out to Lunch column, saying he is ”sorry to have caused so much offence”.
The South African Human Rights Commission is conducting an internal investigation into an incorrect media statement that said it would not pursue a complaint of racism against columnist David Bullard. ”The official position of the commission has never been that we are not taking up the matter,” said CEO Tseliso Thipanyane.
The South African Human Rights Commission will not pursue two complaints it received about the controversial column that led to writer David Bullard being fired from the Sunday Times, spokesperson Vincent Moaga said on Wednesday. This is because the newspaper has apologised, he said.
A "racist column" has cost well-known <i>Sunday Times</i> columnist David Bullard his job, media reports said on Friday. "He wrote a racist column on Sunday. I had a conversation with him on Tuesday, I told him that what he wrote was unacceptable," <i>Sunday Times</i> editor Mondli Makhanya was quoted as saying.
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/ 24 October 2007
The South African Broadcasting Corporation would be within its rights not to run a story on Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, but media diversity is important in ensuring that other outlets can run it if they choose to, African National Congress (ANC) politician and businessman Saki Macozoma said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 October 2007
Under no circumstances should a patient’s medical records be disclosed unless he or she gives personal consent, a seminar hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission was told on Tuesday. A panel was discussing the implications of articles published by the Sunday Times about Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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/ 23 October 2007
Under no circumstances should a patient’s medical records be disclosed unless he or she gives personal consent, a seminar hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission was told on Tuesday. Chairperson of the South African Medical Association Dr Kgosi Letlape said medical records should not be disclosed without consent.
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/ 23 October 2007
The docket on the theft of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s medical records was returned to the police on Monday, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). ”It became necessary for us to do so because there are certain areas of investigation which still need to receive attention,” said NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali.
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/ 20 October 2007
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya was accused of lying about his ”imminent arrest” by South African Broadcasting Corporation group chief executive Dali Mpofu and writer Ronald Suresh Roberts at a conference in Sandton on Friday.
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/ 19 October 2007
There is no huge threat to the media in South Africa, but some planned laws are worrying, South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) chairperson Jovial Rantao said on Friday. Addressing a joint South African Broadcasting Corporation and Sanef conference, Rantao said: ”There is no huge threat against the media in this country.”
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/ 18 October 2007
Freedom of expression is a right South Africans should not have to ask for, businessman Tokyo Sexwale told a gathering at the Star’s 120th anniversary celebrations in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”You have the right, you don’t have to ask for that right … you have won that right by being citizens of this country,” said Sexwale.
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/ 16 October 2007
Western Cape police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday scoffed at claims that police are about to arrest Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and deputy managing editor Jocelyn Maker. ”We wish to state that there is no truth in reports that [they] will be arrested and/or be brought before court this week,” NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said.
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/ 16 October 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang plans to speak out about media allegations that she is an alcoholic and a kleptomaniac. ”When the time comes this minister will speak out,” Tshabalala-Msimang said at a press conference at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on Tuesday.