Herbst: Wasted millions – Corruption flourishes as investigative journalism flounders
Given the PIC investment of hundreds of millions of rands to create a “black Naspers” Ed Herbst reflects on the latest sales figures for daily newspapers.
Given the PIC investment of hundreds of millions of rands to create a “black Naspers” Ed Herbst reflects on the latest sales figures for daily newspapers.
If the Cape Times does close, few will probably miss it now that it has become a ruling party rag at best, a propaganda sheet at worst. But it will end 120 years of journalism history.
The news that Marius Fransman has been reinstated as Western Cape leader of the ANC takes Ed Herbst back to a letter which was published in the Cape Argus in 2009.
James Myburgh asks how independent can Independent Newspapers be with almost a billion rand in growing debt to the State Pension Fund.