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Media News South Africa

Manto/Sunday Times battle heats up

NEWSWATCH:The Times this morning, Thursday, 16 August 2007, reports that the “Health Minister has demanded that the Sunday Times ‘come clean' about its involvement with missing medical documents taken from the hospital where she underwent surgery in 2005” and has made available for download the official statement by Medi-Clinic on the charge of theft (which has not been laid against any specific parties), the clinic's lawyer's letter to the newspaper and the newspaper's legal response.

For more, go to Sunday Times must ‘come clean' over theft — Manto (DOCUMENTS).

SABC board shortlist

Meanwhile, Business Day writes that “[a]ll eight nominated members of the existing SABC board have made it onto Parliament's short list for selection to a new board” but that “opposition party MPs on the committee are hopeful that all existing board members with the exception of Alison Gilwald will be excluded from the final list of 12 candidates, which has to be approved by President Thabo Mbeki.” For more, click here.

About Simone Puterman

Simone Puterman (@SimoneAtLarge) is currently editor-at-large at Marklives.com and deputy chair of the Sanef online editors subcommittee. After majoring in psychology and linguistics at Rhodes University, and then completing her honours in psychology, she has been in the world of B2B publishing since 1997, with 7.5 year stints at both WriteStuff Publishing and Bizcommunity.com (March 2006-August 2013). Email her at moc.sevilkram@enomis.
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