Swearing on your dignity – Ed Herbst

Here Ed Herbst describes several amusing and thought-provoking incidents involving the usage of the P-word and C-word.

Activists stepping up to defend Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois after her firing by new CEO Iqbal Surve’

Journalism is an interesting business. It is simultaneously a profit-making enterprise and a crucial support structure for democratic governance. Journalists seek to please audiences, but their salaries are paid by advertisers and they answer to owners who are sometimes subjects of the stories they write. All in all, it’s an awkward business, as the recent … Read more