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Africa, tune in: The NBA is back on your screens

The NBA’s been on pause since March but will be back in full effect on Thursday. What’s happened since the stoppage and what’s about to happen?

Whose copyright is it anyway? Sinethemba Twani is a playwright who works as a petrol attendant to pay the bills. He claims that a TV drama series bears an uncanny resemblance in content and title to one of his performed scripts. Photo: David Harrison

So who did plant the seed?

A dramatist and petrol attendant who wrote Imbewu is up against entertainment industry heavyweights behind the TV series Imbewu: The Seed

There is a distinct lack of education and understanding about issues of consent in South Africa, as I realised when watching the programme Golddiggers on e.tv.

​What amounts to rape is not widely known

The public needs to know that it can take many forms and responses to it can differ widely.

Will her head roll? Communications Minister Faith Muthambi was lambasted by the Supreme Court of Appeal for failing to consult stakeholders such as e.tv on her digital migration policy changes.

Faith Muthambi likely to bear brunt of the backlash over digital fail

Some foresee ‘blood in the water’ after the appeal court shot down the minister’s migration policy.

MultiChoice accused of hijacking digital TV

There is widespread evidence of the pay-TV operator clearly trying to dictate state policy.

South African National Editors Forum chairperson

Editors’ forum welcomes review into e.tv’s practices

The South African National Editors’ Forum noted the allegations of editorial interference at e.tv and welcomed the decision to launch a review.

Khato Civils sanitation project in Giyani shows the company’s focus on delivering clean water for development. Photo: Supplied

Blurred lines: e.tv admits eNCA series involved advertising money

e.tv has admitted that money was involved in a series produced by eNCA, apparently in collusion with the minister of economic development.

Marcel Golding pushed for a documentary on Jacob Zuma.

The day Marcel Golding spun for Zuma

A tame documentary on Jacob Zuma goes against ousted e.tv chief executive Marcel Golding’s supposed stand against editorial interference from govt.

HCI split leaves future of e.tv in the balance

An emotionally charged AGM at HCI sees the decades long business partnership of Marcel Golding and Johnny Copelyn formally end.

E.tv’s chief operating officer resigns

Bronwyn Keene-Young is the latest to leave e.tv amid the Marcel Golding debacle, in a stand against the broadcaster’s lack of editorial independence.

Marcel Golding resigns from e.tv

After losing an urgent court application to halt a disciplinary action case on Monday, it emerged that Golding resigned on Sunday.

E.tv’s Marcel Golding loses bid to halt disciplinary action

Although Judge Anton Steenkamp raised concerns over political interference, he said Golding had failed to show that was related to his suspension.

Golding: Accusations of political interference emerge

Suspended e.tv head Marcel Golding is expected to hear Monday if his bid to overturn his suspension has been successful.

E.tv’s Golding says political pressure pushed him out

E.tv’s Marcel Golding believes his refusal to yield to political pressure in editorial decisions was the reason for his suspension.

E.tv holding company suspends Marcel Golding

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

e.tv and SABC have been named by government as the culprits responsible for the latest delay in the DTT migration process. (AFP)

Dithering and delays hit digital TV

Confusion reigns as the 2015 deadline looms for SA’s migration to digital to be completed.

Finally switching to digital

SABC television viewers will switch from analogue to digital early next year.

TV’s digital migration boxed down

TV’s digital migration boxed down

Free-to-air providers’ insistence on access control will drive up prices, detractors say.

e.tv journalists held in Swaziland

eNews Africa editor Chris Maroleng says e.tv journalist Tumaole Mohlaoli and cameraman Meshack Dube have been arrested in Swaziland.

BCCSA fines e.tv for airing Gaddafi’s last moments

BCCSA fines e.tv for airing Gaddafi’s last moments

Television channel e.tv has been fined R35 000 for airing violent footage of the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi without warning viewers.