by Franz Kruger | Jan 12, 2010 | Media business
TANZANIAN journalists have elected a seven-member committee to revive the Tanzania Union of Journalists (TUJ), writes Dennis Itumbi for jocoza. The new team has vowed to turn TUJ into a proactive labour union and to convene a congress as a way of re-building and...
by Claire Lowen | Jan 4, 2010 | Media business
NEW group CEO for the SABC, Solly Mokoetle, starts his first day on the job today amid fears that his tenure at the broadcaster could once again see a damaging battle between board and executive management, writes Jocelyn Newmarch for Business Day. ...
by Franz Kruger | Dec 18, 2009 | Media business
FOUR journalists from the private media have filed an application in the High Court seeking the nullification of the results of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) elections, that were held by the former executive led by Matthew Takaona, writes Violet Gonda for SW...
by Franz Kruger | Dec 15, 2009 | Media business
THE Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is trying to wriggle its way out of a technical insolvency that threatens to undermine its mandate of steering the country into the digital television era, writes Okuttah Mark in Business Daily. The insolvency arose from a...
by Franz Kruger | Dec 9, 2009 | Media business
ELEMENTONE'S directors have demanded that the commission paid to Caxton chief executive Terry Moolman, his long-term business partner and some directors and representatives be scrapped, writes Thabiso Mochiko in Business Report. The mood was tense at Caxton's...
by Franz Kruger | Dec 9, 2009 | Media business
ACADEMY Award-winning actress Charlize Theron won over the hearts of North Coast school pupils with gifts of shoes and a piano, but launched into a tirade at a local journalist who took pictures of her at the event, according to a report in The Star. Theron attended a...