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When Iqbal Survé bought Independent Newspapers with the help of the Public Investment Corporation, questions were asked on how independent the newspaper could be with that kind of help.
Like the English schoolboy who picked up the soccer ball and ran, Ed Herbst breaks unquestioned rules, prompting vital debate and perhaps even, an entirely new game.
Former Naspers Chairman Ton Vosloo has donated R3.5m towards an investigative journalism unit positioned within Media24.
Veteran journalist Ed Herbst in this article unpacks the latest revelations involving Independent Media boss, Dr Iqbal Survé.
After many false throws of the prosecutorial net, we have new fisher-folk with solid intent who are hauling in the fatter SABC barracudas.
With an election little more than four months away, the governing African National Congress is panicking, writes Ed Herbst.
It’s been a long walk to prison for corrupt ANC politician John Block. He’s fought the sentence against him in a similar Stalingrad strategy employed by the likes of Jacob Zuma.
With the cynical appointment of Dumisani Hlophe as political editor at the SABC just prior to the 2019 election, Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC has shown yet again that it has put party before country.
Sometimes the essence of a debate is best contextualised and summarised by an intermediary or perhaps more accurately here, facilitator, which is the role veteran journalist and political observer Ed Herbst plays for UCT’s most outspoken anti-Fallist academic, Professor Tim Crowe.
The ANC is in the spotlight over an environmental disaster in the Vaal Dam. Years of financial mismanagement and corruption have contributed to the degradation of a vital resource.