Jocoza News 26 May

• In the latest episode of her Backstory series, Gill Moodie talks to journalist Alex Eliseev about the Betty Ketani case, a very cold murder case which has recently come to trial.

• On the very eve of democratic South Africa’s fifth general election, the Electoral Court delivered a landmark judgment on the rules of electoral engagement, writes Dario Milo. And it’s clarified the rules around comment and factual claims during elections.

• The Lifespan of a fact records the correspondence between writer John D’Agata and fact-checker Jim Fingal, resulting in one of the funniest books about journalism Wits Journalism’s Anton Harber has ever read. 

• Promoters have reacted with rage to Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula’s announcement that there will be no live coverage of boxing by the SABC, writes Bongani Magasela.

• An Australian judge has reserved a decision on the amount of damages a freelancer will have to pay the former Zimbabwean ambassador to Australia, writes Dumi Sigogo for jocoza.

• If you missed it, you can listen to the podcast of episode 13 of The Science Inside, in which they explored the white-powder-in-an-envelope hoax used so often to cause chaos. 

Opportunities:

• Over 50 top speakers, and a wide range of topics, from the best radio apps in the world to an evaluation of 20 years of public radio: that’s this year’s Joburg Radio Days (July 2 – 4).  The draft programme is now available online.

Have a good week further!

The jocoza team