No parking off for Jo’burg’s Tau
‘Are you really the Jo’burg mayor?" This is a question that Parks Tau gets asked a lot because of his youthful appearance.
Glenda Daniels
Revamp press code, team proposes
But council reiterates the importance of self-regulation to uphold standards.
Secrecy tango raises civil society’s ire
MEDIA FREEDOM: The ANC’s backtracking on essential concessions in the Bill is galvanising activists like never before.
Malawi better shape up if it needs a hand, says US
President Mutharika faces further protests and a loss of desperately needed aid if he fails to address Malawi’s problems, civil groups and the US say.
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Western powers withdraw aid to Malawi
The US has withheld $350-million in funding to Malawi following the death of 19 people during two days of public protests last week.
Promises, but still not time to celebrate
Whistle-blowers and journalists can still be criminalised, even though concessions have been made to the Secrecy Bill.
‘Spooks are everywhere’
Media freedom in South Africa has decreased markedly since 2008, a watchdog says.
Overhaul of self-regulation on the cards
Sanef is setting up an "eminent persons’ panel" to investigate ways to strengthen and reform the print media’s self-regulation system.
Delay in the fight against secrecy not a final victory
What Jimmy Manyi’s ultimate fantasy could look like
Open season on the media
A three-pronged attack by the government comes as self-scrutiny increases.
Press not off ANC’s hook
The planned media appeals tribunal is once again high on the ruling party’s agenda .
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SABC has seven days to apologise to M&G
Broadcaster must now air prime-time apology.
Secrecy: ditch the Stalinist colours, ANC
COMMENT: The organisation that liberated us from
apartheid now wishes to oppress us.
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Soweto rail crash just tip of the iceberg
A 2009 report shows collisions climbed sharply, compelling more stringent safety standards.
Can ANC save the Secrecy Bill?
Sticking points prevent committee from pushing legislation through in its current state
Battle for Zim report in final round
Judgment reserved in Jacob Zuma’s last attempt to conceal judges’ assessment of 2002 election
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M&G’s battle for secret Zim report reaches ConCourt
The Presidency has not been able to prove a report on the 2002 Zimbabwe elections must stay secret, counsel for the M&G told the Constitutional Court.
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Smoking the peace pipe ‘in the interests of cricket’
In a surprise move this week Cricket South Africa president Mtutuzeli Nyoka won more than his reinstatement.
Pikitup won’t sign wage agreement, says Samwu
Samwu said on Wednesday that it had accepted an offer to end a refuse-worker strike, but that Pikitup management did not sign the agreement.
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Secrecy Bill: Parly, police and R2K
What do you do when you have less than three months before the next "final" deadline for the controversial Protection of Information Bill?
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Prison assault figures are startling
The very high levels of violence in jails has been highlighted by the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons.
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Prison brutality caught on video
Video surveillance footage shot in the new Kimberley prison appears to show prison security personnel assaulting prisoners.
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The search is on to expose the nation’s top 10 secrets
The Right2Know campaign is compiling a list of South Africa’s top 10 secrets.
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Fancy digs, but is New Age moving enough copies?
The <i>New Age</i> newspaper is full of surprises, as I discovered during a visit to the paper this week.
Special report: transport
Staff ‘fleece’ Metrorail in online scam; meanwhile, in the Eastern Cape, government cannot get its trains back on track.
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Dignity vs freedom of expression
President Jacob Zuma is once again pursuing his lawsuit against cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro for the "rape of justice" cartoon published two years ago.
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The politics of food
Small NGO takes on giant multinational over its attempts to control SA seed market
Don’t shoot the messenger, says UN rapporteur in SA
The UN’s Frank LaRue said in Johannesburg this week that there can be no democracy without the internet as well as no development.
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Right2Know pumps up the volume
Group opposed to ‘secrecy’ Bill becomes a formally constituted organisation
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Charges against lensman escalated
Mail & Guardian photographer Oupa Nkosi is facing trial for "assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm"
Having a midlife focus
Doing a PhD was nowhere in journalist Glenda Daniels’s ‘life plan’ — but now she’s hooked.
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Whatever you say, darling
Recently, over lunch with friends from overseas, a long discussion ensued about the behaviour and discipline – or lack thereof – of children these days. Far from being fuddy-duddies, the pregnant couple in their mid-30s said they would not raise their offspring in England, because the rudeness and lack of discipline among children there was horrific.
