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Winnie Mandikizela-Mandela (L) hugs Limpho Hani (C, back) the widow of the late South African Communist Party, Chris Hani, as former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu (R), Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), greets ANC veteran Walter Sisulu, during a break in the TRC’s hearings of apartheid-era human rights abuses allegedly committed by Mandikizela-Mandela. Hani’s husband’s killers are currently appearing at a TRC amnesty hearing in Mamelodi. (Photo by Denis Farrell/POOL/AFP)
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Lest we forget Tutu’s anger, and our own faces

The hardest part of reckoning is the reckoning and where the archbishop is resented it is not for the ways in which the TRC failed but those in which it succeeded and brought an…

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, the EFF’s national spokesperson. (Katlego Sekgothe/M&G)

Court orders EFF to apologise for Gqubule and Harber ‘StratCom’ claim

The Johannesburg high court says the EFF had brought no evidence to back up the allegation

EFF leader Julius Malema has called on his supporters to “deal with them decisively” with journalists. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

When death goes viral: Q&A with Tarryn Crossman on the multifaceted ways grief mixes with social media

Poster for Timelines – Tarryn Crossman’s new documentary.

Dr Iqbal Survé. (Lerato Maduna/Foto24)

Editorial independence is sacred

Last Friday, several titles in the Independent stable published front-page reports, with a “Staff Writer” byline, that smeared journalists

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Spooky! It was the goofy lad

There was a rather odd guy in the accounts department who was not tall and who wore strange round glasses on his face

Survé told the commission that this was the fault of media competitors who sabotaged the listing of Sagarmatha Technologies and “blatantly put negative propaganda in the public space”. (Lerato Maduna/Gallo)

Media professionals respond to ‘Stratcom’ allegations

Media professionals have come out defending themselves on allegations labelling them "Stratcom" agents

Tensions between the media and the EFF reached new heights last week Tuesday after Malema addressed a crowd gathered outside the venue of the commission of inquiry into state capture, in Parktown, Johannesburg.

Sanef ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘Stratcom’ accusations from Indy media

This is the second time in as many weeks that prominent journalists have been called “Stratcom agents” without any proof

Spooked: An ‘influencer’ in KwaZulu-Natal is peddling a story that former president Jacob Zuma

State spies are ever with us

The infiltration of the media did not end with the demise of the apartheid government’s Stratcom operation

A judge may only be impeached if the Judicial Service Commission has found him guilty of gross misconduct.

‘We need to take a critical view of a complicated history’

History can have conflicting narratives and as an audience we do not approach it without our own understanding of it