Aziz Pahad Doesn't Know What The Media's Role Is
Nothing gives me that warm fuzzy feeling more than when a government official doesn’t seem to understand quite exactly what the roles and responsibilities of the press are. This week it’s Deputy...
View ArticleWeekender: Mbeki Legacy Ruined By Cabinet
In the past on this blog we’ve called for cabinet ministers in charge of non-performing departments to be dismissed. The Business Day Weekender echoed those sentiments in this weeks editorial where...
View ArticleSnuki Zikalala Is Ignorant
And you can quote me on that. I had to put my head in my hands and breath deeply for a few seconds to avoid punching my monitor after reading this quote: For instance people say there is no food in...
View ArticleParliament Legal Advisers: Film And Publication Amendment Bill Is Stupid
Parliament’s legal advisers believe that the proposed Film And Publication Amendment Bill (which we’ve covered before) is unconstitutional. Hopefully this will stop this idiotic piece of legislation...
View ArticleSelebi Bombshell About To Hit?
The Mail & Guardian is rerporting that the NPA is making significant inroads in their investigation into the the links between Police Commisioner Jackie Selebi and the criminal network led by Glenn...
View ArticleMbeki Documentary To Air
Remember that documentary about Thabo Mbeki that was pre-emptively yanked off the airwaves in June last year? Well it seems the thought police at the SABC have decided that we are now sufficiently...
View ArticleSteinberg: Sexwale Will Buy Power
Jonny Steinberg (author of the most excellent SA prison gang treatise ‘The Number’) has a rather scathing editorial in today’s Business Day comparing presidential hopeful Tokyo Sexwale to Italian Prime...
View ArticleFired Deputy Minister Slams Government
Fired Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge is slamming government but big time on the radio during her press conference (in progress live on 567 CapeTalk/Radio 702). This is probably the...
View ArticleSABC Quits SANEF, Journalists Quit SABC
Following the SABC’s decision to leave SANEF, Jacques Pauw head of Special Assignment, one of the few actual investigative journalism programmes left on the SABC, has resigned (the Special Assignment...
View ArticlePahad: Government Should Pull Ads From Sunday Times
Following the Sunday Times/Manto fight, Minister in the Presidency (and head of GCIS) Essop Pahad has said that government should pull it’s advertisements from the Sunday Times. This can’t happen soon...
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