Right of Reply: “Unbalanced” Cape Times has its lawyers threaten Biznews.
Biznews awaits the Cape Times’s detailed response to what its lawyer terms “each and every untrue and defamatory statement” and will publish them with equal prominence.
Biznews awaits the Cape Times’s detailed response to what its lawyer terms “each and every untrue and defamatory statement” and will publish them with equal prominence.
Ed Herbst says the newspaper world in South Africa was rocked on 1 November when New Age editor Moegsien Williams issued what amounted to a press release punting his employers, the Guptas.
As a person interested in what happens at the interface between politics and media, Ed Herbst was troubled by a sentence in a recent Cape Times front page story.
Ed Herbst looks at an example of investigative journalism at the Cape Times, which played a significant role in bringing to international public attention the true story of the Gugulethu Seven.
PIC Dan Matjila’s dream of creating a “Black Naspers” while deliberately not generating the maximum safe return for civil service pensioners is turning into a nightmare for editorial staff at Independent.
Chumani Maxwele was well known for his misogyny and penchant for violence before he unleashed it at UCT. But as Ed Herbst explains, this was deliberately withheld by the Cape Times.
Justice Malala, in his recently published book, writes: ‘To my shame I have kept quiet about what is happening at places like Independent Newspapers, where I began my career’.