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Media24 pulls together Afrikaans news sites

With the launch this month of Netwerk24, Media24 did a very significant thing - but it might have passed you by because only a short press release about it was sent out, writes Gill Moodie in the latest instalment of her “Backstory” series.

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Absurdity of news matches reality

Craig Williamson, the security policeman who sent the bomb that killed activist Ruth First in Maputo in 1982, walks free in Johannesburg, while Pallo Jordan, injured in the attack, withdraws from public life after being shown not to have the academic credentials associated with his name. That’s just one of many absurdities to rule the day, writes Anton Harber.

President of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN), Kolawole Oyeyemi, has urged all stakeholders in the electronic media to step up preparations for the much awaited switch-over from analogue to digital broadcasting.

The state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech will test digital radio technologies from October, a move that will open the airwaves to more radio stations and improved audio quality, it said last week.

Ellen Tshabalala, the controversial chairperson of the national broadcaster, is having her colleagues investigated.

ICASA is set to crack open South Africa’s free-to-air television industry to more competition. As the country moves to digital broadcasting, the communications regulator is planning to license a third terrestrial player to compete head-on with the SABC and e.tv.

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