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There is nothing inherently magical about a newspaper. Socially, sure, the beautiful thing about a physical copy is that it can be shared, passed around and collectively leafed through. But that’s not what makes it great.
South Africa’s youngest news consumers are disengaging from traditional journalism.

Editorial: Readers will decide news quality

The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post

Columns: Author Herman Lategan writes about the colourful characters of the Sea Point of the 1970s, where he grew up and still lives.

The real Afrikaans experience

‘People are generally so fucken switched off’ – how Lategan puts readers into his characters’ shoes

The Turkish people are confused as to who to trust – the president or the government – after a row between the prime minister and the president on the Kurdish issue.

Free speech is costly

​Freedom of expression is one of the cornerstones of our nascent constitutional democracy, and it is unquestionably a principle worth defending

The matter continues on Thursday at the Johannesburg High Court.

Editing Steve: The limits of free expression

‘Over the years Steve Hofmeyr has reinvented himself from the poor man’s Brad Pitt to a singer to a political public commentator’

The matter continues on Thursday at the Johannesburg High Court.

EDITORIAL: Hofmeyr? Seriously?

Hofmeyr isn’t capable of singing a new song; he just recycles his old hits, which are just some old folk songs from a rather nasty tradition.

Krog, Pauw speak out on newspaper’s decision to publish Hofmeyr’s views

The weekly Afrikaans paper was challenged on social media after it published an opinion piece by right-wing popstar Steve Hofmeyr.

The SANDF argued that according to the relevant legislation it is not lawful for civilians to live on a military base.

Leaked SANDF document details powers of ‘control officer’ during state of emergency

On Sunday, Rapport, sister publication of News24, reported that the Presidency had started to compose regulations for a state of emergency.

Enver Surty
2008 – 2009

Criticism of new locomotives has racial undertones – Prasa

Criticism of the Prasa’s new train locomotives imported from Spain is laced with racial undertones, says group chief executive Lucky Montana.

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. (Gallo)

Newspapers told to apologise to Pistorius

The press ombudsman has ordered Rapport and City Press to publish an apology for causing unnecessary harm to paralympian Oscar Pistorius.

Waldimar Pelser is the man tasked with steering Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport on a new course

Is Waldimar Pelser Afrikaans media’s last roll of the dice?

An important part of the young and prodigious Pelser’s already tough job will be to win over black readers. He spoke to Charles Leonard.

Judge Piet Koen has set the matter down for 30 January when he will announce whether he will recuse himself.

Court throws out Zuma’s R5m case against Rapport

Beeld has reported President Jacob Zuma’s defamation case of R5-million against Rapport has been dismissed with costs.

Upset Prince quits SA players’ body

South African batsman Ashwell Prince has resigned as president of the South African Cricketers’ Association after alleged details of a meeting were published. Rapport claimed on…