Jocoza News 17 June

• Maybe it’s not so surprising that there is a beacon of hope for our newspaper industry coming from one of the country’s more marginal cities, – but maybe we shouldn’t be surprised, writes Gill Moodie in the latest instalment of her “Backstory” series.

• Metro FM radio DJ Eddie Zondi has died, the SABC has confirmed.

• Does cancer kill more people in Africa than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids combined? No. Africa Check tells the editors of a Channel 4 programme in the UK they were wrong.

• The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) of Zimbabwe yesterday has delivered a landmark ruling decriminalising defamation, to the approval of journalists and media activists.

• Traditional Venda chiefs have given SABC acting chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng a wife, a cow, and a calf, Sowetan reported on Friday.

Opportunities:

• MMA/WITS accredited course on reporting on children in the media course 2014 will run from 30th June-4th July 2014 and then from the 14th of July to 18th July. 

• There’s not much time left to register for Joburg Radio Days, which will take place at Wits from July 2 – 4.  Speakers include veteran Stan Katz, the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng, Sweden’s head of public radio Cilla Benkö, British futurologist James Cridland, Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich, Gareth Cliff, Radio Dialogue’s Zenzele Ndebele; radio practitioners from Timbuktu, the CAR, Zambia, the US and Holland, and many others. You can’t afford to miss it!

Have a good week further!

The jocoza team