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HARARE – Zimbabwe media mogul Trevor Ncube has hit back at claims by a rival South African newspaper “The New Age” which claims that he “continues to live a lavish lifestyle while his media empire is crumbling.”
SOUTH AFRICA – Political analyst and brother of former president Thabo Mbeki, Moeletsi Mbeki, is claiming R20 million from the Mail & Guardian newspaper following two articles he said were “wrongful and defamatory”.
SOUTH AFRICA – Despite suggestions from justices of the Supreme Court of Appeal to abandon an appeal, the Presidency stuck to its guns, in court on Thursday, in its bid to keep secret a report on the controversial 2002 Zimbabwean election.
Here is my response to reports that have been carried in The Star and its sister publications in the Independent Group about Mail & Guardian Media Ltd (M&G) and Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) over the past few days.
The Mail & Guardian (M&G) denied a report on Friday that it is in financial trouble, that staff were unpaid for months and that it subsidises business interests in Zimbabwe.
Pretoria – The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ordered the presidency on Thursday to hand over a report on the 2002 Zimbabwean elections to the Mail & Guardian newspaper.
North Gauteng High Court judge Joseph Raulinga said he was “left standing between a rock and a hard place” in having to decide whether a South African observer report about Zimbabwe’s hotly contested 2002 elections should be released to the public.
I have noticed that when cases come to court in Southern Africa, if the subject matter of the case is delicate and in danger of exposing the governments for their activities, then the case’s judgement is reserved writes Robb WJ Ellis (The Bearded Man).