Archive for the 'Media' Category

The short answer is: a great deal.
Peter Vundla, who resigned from the SABC board back in May, took the opportunity following Khanyi Mkhonza’s resignation on Thursday last week to say what he reckons is wrong with the SABC. Among the mildest things he says is his opinion that the broadcaster is like an employment agency; [...]

Last Thursday, 28 May 2008, according to the Mail &Guardian Online, SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said that the corporation viewed the news site’s posting of the uncut version of the so-called Zapiro show on its website as “unprofessional” and that the posting had undermined the public broadcaster. Today, Chris Moerdyk poses the question SABC vs [...]

And the SABC’s troubles just keep on multiplying… Whether it’s R800 million or R1.8 million in the red, or a R2 billion short-term bailout versus R6 billion over the next five years, it’s making everyone hot under the collar. Naturally, management and board members, according to more than one news report, are not letting their [...]

Last week saw top stories in the media relating to the jostling for editorial positions at various South Africa’s news publishers. At the Mail & Guardian, Ferial Haffajee’s shock resignation for the City Press sees Nic Dawes becoming the newspaper’s incoming editor-in-chief and at the Cape Times, Alide Dasnois, the former deputy editor, has become [...]

I think we can all heave a sigh of relief that President Motlanthe has returned the Films & Publications Amendment Bill back to Parliament unsigned, much against the wishes of the ANC. This is a great step forward towards upholding our media freedom in South Africa, which will be featured later this year on Dutch [...]

Apparently some time last week, Primedia Broadcasting silently launched the beta version of its new umbrella news brand, Eyewitness News. The site is accessible from the news section of its various radio stations such as 94.7 Highveld Stereo, Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk.

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Tonight, Thursday, 13 November 2008, is the very first Bookmarks, an award engineered to benchmark the best in creative digital media in South Africa, launched by the Online Publishers Association, SA’s independent representative body for online publishers, in association with Lowe Bull.
Bizcommunity.com’s very own founding director, André Rademan, has been nominated in the category [...]