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Ton Vosloo looks back at an extraordinary career

Naspers chairman Ton Vosloo oversaw his last Naspers AGM recently before he retires in April 2015. In this first part of an interview with Gill Moodie, writing the latest edition of her Backstory series, he looks back at his extraordinary 60-year career as a journalist and manager, the difficulty of taking the print group into television and why Naspers became a monopoly in pay-TV.

Drum Generation writer Nat Nakasa was reburied in South African soil this past weekend. He and Director in the Press Council Joe Thloloe were friends, colleagues and rebels back in the day. City Press’s Dumisane Lubisi caught up with Bra Joe, and asked him about Nakasa’s lessons for today’s journalists. Are we still asking the tough questions?

IT IS not new for journalists to be killed for doing their job. The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) lists 1,074 killed in the course of their work in the past 12 years. About 40% of these were covering war, while the bulk were covering politics, human rights or corruption, writes Anton Harber.

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Nat Nakasa, ‘rest well my brother’

Fifty years after Nat Nakasa’s simple funeral in New York, the legendary journalist has been brought home to a memorial service fit for a dignitary.

Grand plans for the revamped government communications portfolio and Minister Faith Muthambi have been a bitter disappointment.

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Parliament to probe SABC chair

PARLIAMENT’S portfolio committee on communications has resolved to hold a hearing into allegations that South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chairwoman Ellen Tshabalala lied about her academic qualifications.

GABORONE — Botswana on Thursday reacted angrily to concerns raised by the US following the arrest of a newspaper editor who published a story claiming the president was involved in a car accident.

Arranged to coincide with South Africa’s Media Freedom Day, the purpose of this colloquium is to showcase the work and conduct a mid-term review of the Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP).

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Women in Media Summit

Blue Anchor Academy is delighted to invite you to attend this exciting 3 day Women in Media and Communications Leadership Summit 2014, taking place on 15th – 17th October 2014, Protea Balalaika Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg.

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