This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40…
The M&G is not immune to criticism. We have made many mistakes over the years. What we can be unequivocal about, however, is that a blow to anyone in the news media is a gut…
The closure of the New Frame, which sought to chase quality over clicks, is a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of donor funding
The Mail & Guardian celebrated a milestone in the crazy year that was, not that 1985 was any less so
In the coming weeks we will take you back, year by year, through our history and the history of this country and continent. So much has changed since 1985. So much more needs to…
Thank you for buying our newspaper. Siyabonga, re a leboga, enkosi, dankie. You are why our newsroom can keep doing good journalism
Sipho Kings has been appointed the acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian
The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim
Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times
Given attacks against media and important questions being raised about our work, we need to be open about why we do what we do
The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi. This week: Life in the camps
‘It is our ardent hope that our new proprietor, the MDIF, will allow us the freedom to tell the stories of South Africa as it ought to be told’
Governments and big business might be good, or bad – they require the same amount of oversight and investigation by media and civil society.
Twenty years ago this week, South African newspaper readers were given their first in-depth exposure to the internet by the Weekly Mail.
Founding co-editor of the "Weekly Mail" Irwin Manoim has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Wits University.
