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E.tv holding company suspends Marcel Golding

Pending a disciplinary hearing into "gross misconduct", Hosken Consolidated Investments has suspended its executive chairperson.

The darling of the media

The darling of the media

She has been called a coconut and a racist, but radio and TV talk-show host and newspaper columnist Redi Tlhabi succeeds where others stumble.

You can’t fix public broadcasting with flawed law-making

Imagine a forum on agriculture without the farmers present. The same logic applies to a bunch of people discussing a new law for the SABC.

Relaxing broadcast ownership is too little, too late

Karl Marx famously said the first time history repeats itself is tragic; the second is farce.

Cope accuses SABC of sabotage

Cope accused the SABC of sabotage and ”blatant bias” following the broadcaster’s blackout on Sunday of the party’s final election rally in Polokwane.

MultiChoice takes the leap into broadband

MultiChoice is branching out from satellite television with its new broadband rugby offering.

Kagiso media shows ‘resilience’ in tough times

Kagiso Media’s headline earnings increased by 20% to R106,3-million, the black-owned and managed media company said on Monday.

SABC won’t cover Cope launch’

The election manifesto launch this weekend of the Congress of the People will not be televised live by the SABC, the public broadcaster has told Cope.

Warring producers make peace with SABC

Arguments about terms of trade and commissioning procedures should now become a thing of the past.

The conceit of good journalism

Percy Zvomuya speaks to an African journalist who has made a substantial contribution to the profession.

Protesters seize Thai state TV

Thousands of royalist protesters stormed Thai state broadcaster NBT on Tuesday as a part of demonstrations to try to overthrow the elected government.

SABC isn’t bullish enough

The problem with the South African Broadcasting Corporation is not that biases its broadcasts, but that it holds back too much.

Back to the future for SABC

After 16 years the SABC is back where it began. A veteran of the campaign to democratise the SABC writes about a new campaign to free the airwaves.