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Pastor threatens to sue Ugandan tabloid for defamation

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:33:00 +0200

The Red Pepper, a Ugandan tabloid newspaper has been warned against publishing defamatory stories about Pastor Isaac Kyobe Kiwewesi of the Kansanga Miracle Centre in Kampala. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: Cash crisis ruins newspaper sales

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:19:00 +0200

The Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) group has revealed that its newspaper titles have suffered significant sales losses due to an arduous cash crisis, devastating the country's newspaper publishing industry. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Malawi's third daily newspaper on the cards

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:20:00 +0200

Malawi will, from this month have a third daily newspaper after President Bingu wa Mutharika's Guardian Publications Limited (GPL) announced its plans to turn tri-weekly, The Guardian into a daily. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Journalists important to Africa's digital revolution

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:59:00 +0200

Grahamstown: Journalists should be at the frontline in advancing the digital revolution in Africa, Deputy Minister of Communications, Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie said on Monday, 8 September 2008. Read full story... | Send to a friend

‘Good old' Grahamstown welcomes Highway Africa 2008

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:02:00 +0200

It's Highway Africa time again and the little, old, and serene town of Grahamstown, 131km from Port-Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, has been ‘invaded' by more than 700 media practitioners from more than 40 African countries and other parts of the world, meeting here to discuss the burning issue of citizen journalism in today's fast-changing media environment. The conference opened today, Monday, 8 September 2008, at Rhodes University and will end on Wednesday. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Rugoho-Chin'ono, CNN Multichoice African Journalist 2008

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:12:00 +0200

Hopewell Rugoh-Chin'ono, from Zimbabwe, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2008 Awards ceremony. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Zimbabwe: Newspapers grab new pricing opportunity to prevent collapse

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:30:00 +0200

Zimbabwe's media houses have seized on a new dispensation allowing them to charge cover prices without engaging price control agents by imposing weekly increases on newspaper prices. Read full story... | Send to a friend

WAN tells Mugabe: 'Drop punitive tax'

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:23:00 +0200

The World Association of Newspapers had told Mugabe to drop a "luxury" tax clearly aimed at stifling news. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards winners

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:53:00 +0200

LONDON: The winners of the 2008 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards were announced last night, Thursday, 3 July 2008, at a gala ceremony in London. Now in its fifth year, the awards honour business journalism focusing on Africa, thus attracting contestants from around the globe. Read full story... | Send to a friend

Tsvangirai disowns article published in UK paper

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:43:00 +0200

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had disowned an article published under his name in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, 25 June 2008, in which he was said to have called for “words of indignation by world leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force”. Read full story... | Send to a friend