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/ 5 March 2008

Don’t cry no tears, FBJ tells 702

Newspaper columnist Jon Qwelane on Wednesday at a public forum organised by the South African Human Rights Commission refused to apologise for calling a former colleague a ”coconut” for objecting to a recent, blacks-only Forum of Black Journalists event. The forum discussion was frank and at times heated.

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/ 16 September 2007

Nation-building, not nation-bashing

Throughout history, we have been taught to see the media as instruments of change with a role to play in nation-building and fighting for a just society. The belief that working as a journalist is a way to fight oppression and contribute to the creation of a non-racial, democratic and united nation was what motivated and inspired the passionate idealism of black and white media workers.