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We will not be cowed. We will not relent in our pursuit of holding the powerful to account. As custodians of this fine institution we will continue to pursue the highest tenet of journalism: truth.

CENSORED: How the M&G got taken down

How Africa’s oldest news website got taken down by a spurious plagiarism complaint

Beauregard Tromp

This week’s M&G is now unembargoed and free to read.

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Unembargoed: November 9 to 15

Premier ‘vigorously encouraged’ NW municipalities to put money into the bank

Mg Reporter

Media clamps loosen, but journalists still squeezed

Vrye Weekblad journalist Charles Leonard was being brutally beaten by riot squad police while reporting on student celebrations.

Philippa Garson