This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40…
The M&G is not immune to criticism. We have made many mistakes over the years. What we can be unequivocal about, however, is that a blow to anyone in the news media is a gut…
The closure of the New Frame, which sought to chase quality over clicks, is a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of donor funding
In the coming weeks we will take you back, year by year, through our history and the history of this country and continent. So much has changed since 1985. So much more needs to…
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Sipho Kings has been appointed the acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian
The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim
Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times
Given attacks against media and important questions being raised about our work, we need to be open about why we do what we do
The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi. This week: Life in the camps
‘It is our ardent hope that our new proprietor, the MDIF, will allow us the freedom to tell the stories of South Africa as it ought to be told’
Governments and big business might be good, or bad – they require the same amount of oversight and investigation by media and civil society.
Twenty years ago this week, South African newspaper readers were given their first in-depth exposure to the internet by the Weekly Mail.
Founding co-editor of the "Weekly Mail" Irwin Manoim has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Wits University.
The founder of the M&G Investing in the Future Awards, reports on how they have kept pace with the changes in corporate social responsibility.
Famous artist William Kentridge’s brief stint as a cartoonist for the <i>Weekly Mail</i> was marked by trepidation.
Former <i>Weekly Mail</i> advertising executive Marilyn Honikman recalls flogging ad space in the early days of the newspaper.
<i>Weekly Mail</i> recruits were poverty stricken, persecuted and despised, writes Anton Harber, but those who stayed afloat are now shaping the news.
On June 14 1985, just six weeks after the death of the <i>Rand Daily Mail</i>, the first edition of the <i>Weekly Mail</i> rolled off the presses.
The <i>Weekly Mail</i> was the first home of the country’s best cartoonists, writes Julia Beffon.
