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Ebola stories divide people into ‘others’ and US
Rwanda’s genocide memorials are designed to demonstrate the scale and brutality of the 1994 slaughter. The visitor is overwhelmed by rows of panga-scarred skulls, piles of bones or blood-spattered clothes, the body parts all neatly divided up — skulls on one side, legs on another — so that they can never be put together again; as if to drive home — even prolong — the dehumanisation, writes Wits University’s Anton Harber.
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Rand Daily Mail – the return (in a very different form)
The news that Times Media Group is bringing back the famous Rand Daily Mail brand after almost 30 years is fascinating, writes Gill Moodie in the latest instalment of her “Backstory” series. But that’s not because of the goodwill and nostalgia associated with the brand, but because the new RDM will be as far as you can get from the old on every level.
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Editorial interference behind suspension – Golding
The behind-the-scenes drama preceding the shock suspension of Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) co-founder and chairman Marcel Golding earlier this week included a stymied attempt to buy out the company’s media assets, a costly dalliance in Ellies shares and hints at political interference in the e.tv news channel, according to a Business Day report.
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Motsoeneng to appeal ruling
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is appealing the Western Cape High Court order on his suspension, the public broadcaster reported on Friday. “I have instructed my lawyers to appeal with immediate effect,” he said, according to a Sapa report.
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SABC chair failed badly at Unisa
This is said to be the startling evidence that Tshabalala would have been confronted with on Thursday at an inquiry set up by Parliament’s communications portfolio committee, the Mail & Guardian reports.
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ZBC agrees to reinstate salaries
THE cash-strapped ZBC has agreed to an out of court settlement that will see the state broadcaster reinstating workers’ salaries to the levels of January this year. The settlement comes after the workers dragged the ZBC management to the Labour Court for breaching the workers’ rights after the parastatal arbitrarily slashed their salaries late last year.
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Power Reporting 2014
Be inspired. Improve your skills. Learn something new at Power Reporting – the African Investigative Journalism, 3 – 5 November, at Wits University. With over 40 speakers and more than 60 sessions, there is something for everyone. Register now at www.journalism.co.za/power-reporting/
The Carlos Cardoso Memorial Lecture with Angolan journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, at 5.30pm (reception 4.30pm) on Tuesday 4 November at the FNB Building, West Campus, Wits University. The lecture forms part of the Power Reporting investigative journalism conference. To attend the lecture rsvp [email protected] To register for the conference www.journalism.co.za/power-reporting/
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