Busy few days for the media

The Mail & Guardian also denied on Friday “disregarding an interdict barring it from publishing the details of a draft internal report into alleged abuse of power at the SABC”, which, according to the Sunday Times on Sunday 22 July, was that SABC boss Dali Mpofu had not yet suspended SABC legal head Mafika Sihlali, whom he hired, after being in advised in April to do so after an internal audit on irregular spending. The Sunday Times also reported that hi-tech surveillance led to the weekend arrest of the suspected prostitute blogger “who caused a scandal by naming male South African celebrities as his clients”.

And on the radio side, not only has DJ Bob Mabena retired from DJing to concentrate on being executive manager of public commercial radio at the SABC (see The Times), YFM programme manager Bondo Ntuli has become “the umpteenth person to quit the troubled Gauteng youth station that has been plagued by mass resignations of its top staff, including DJs, reporters and marketing personnel”, according to City Press.