The Citizen gets a new face

NEWSWATCH: The Citizen has been given a complete make-over and relaunch, reports - who else - The Citizen, and an ANC MP says Icasa is a cancer sufferer, reports Mail & Guardian.

By Rod Baker

1 Aug 2013

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The Citizen: Join our journey into the future... Martin Williams, writing in The Citizen, says that while the newspaper has had a few redesigns over the years, what's been done now is more of a complete rethink rather than a simple redesign.
Take a look and see what you think...
Mail & Guardian: Icasa berated over high cellphone charges... It must be great to be in Parliament and say just about anything you like... Its labour and public enterprises select committee got a bit hot and bothered yesterday when it was briefed by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on the high cost of broadband and cellphone calls.
In between telling the body's hapless representatives that Icasa has been "failing to perform" and has allowed "mobile service companies to 'rip off' the poor", according to the Mail & Guardian report, one African National Congress MP, namely Livhuhani Mabija, suggested Icasa is suffering from a disease.
I'm not sure whether its a case of Doctor Mabija, but in any event, Mail & Guardian reports her as saying: "According to my personal understanding, analysis, and diagnosis ... there is a very dangerous cancer ... that is eating Icasa."
If she's correct, then it sounds like a bit of chemo and perhaps a surgical procedure or two might be called for to effect a cure.

Rod Baker

About Rod Baker

Rod Baker is Content Director at Bizcommunity.com. A journalist since before computers, he worked on a wide range of magazines and, in his youth, rose through the ranks from being a lowly and abused sub-editor, to a high and still abused editor and publisher. He has been editor and publisher of a number of magazines, as well as a newspaper. He has edited many books, and written a number too. Email him at moc.ytinummoczib@dor.