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Judge Thokozile Masipa went “too far” by restricting the media from tweeting post-mortem evidence in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial, a media law expert said in a television interview on Tuesday. “Unfortunately in my view that was a decision that, with respect, went slightly too far because it misunderstood the nature
Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial is bigger than the Fifa World Cup, according to figures by media monitoring group Data Driven Insight (DDI). “Unbelievably, worldwide the Oscar trial is bigger in media than the Fifa 2014 World Cup,” said DDI’s Tonya Khoury on Tuesday. DDI said despite restrictions
JSE-listed technology services group Business Connexion (BCX) has acquired two IT companies elsewhere on the African continent, Panabiz Nigeria and Ultimate Solutions Botswana. BCX has acquired a 100% stake in both
Opposition parties will continue to push for the truth behind the enforced power cut “crisis” before the elections, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. The DA and the Independent Democrats called for an investigation into the bonuses paid to Eskom executives, as part of a range of measures to counter the
The judge in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial ordered that the live feed of proceedings be cut because of the graphic testimony of the pathologist about to give evidence on his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s injuries. “There shall be no live broadcast now … [and] that applies to Twitter,” said Judge Thokozile Masipa. Gert Saayman
One in three South Africans don’t know that the earth revolves around the sun, according to a test with 10 basic science questions, a newspaper report said on Sunday. The average South African only cracked half of the questions, put to a thousand people via Media24’s online Forum24. The 2 200 Americans
Just a day after cautioning shareholders that it was in talks with MTN South Africa, Telkom has signed a heads of agreement with the company in terms of which MTN will take over financial and operational responsibility for the roll-out and operation of its radio access network. In addition, each company will be able to
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Cell C must withdraw a radio advertisement that takes aim at rival MTN and its decision to take communications regulator Icasa to court over its final regulations on call termination rates. Cell C began flighting the ad on 20 February, soon after
The Democratic Alliance is demanding that R31m in bonuses paid to Eskom “directors” be “returned” to national treasury following Thursday’s rolling blackouts, the first since 2008’s power crisis. The DA says it wants the money paid back so that it can be used to buy generators for hospitals and emergency
SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala was nominated by her board to act as group CEO of the public broadcaster shortly after Lulama Mokhobo resigned from the post, but the communications minister was not having any of it. Tshabalala’s nomination to the acting post had to be approved
