Judge rules in favour of Noseweek

Noseweek editor Martin Weltz will not be publishing details in the October 2007 issue but in later editions, to allow time for more investigation. According to Business Day, “Welz hailed yesterday's judgment as a victory for media freedom and said he hoped this would spur other media which had up until now been intimidated from pursuing the story by the power of the major financial institutions because of threats to their advertising revenue.”

The three-quarter page advert in Business Day consists of two side-by-side letters by head of legal services Sello Ramasala and health department director-general Thami Mseleku.

Meanwhile, the caricaturing of Manto continues, with a cloned profile on Facebook, which includes personal interests such as garlic, lemon and beetroot, and the ability to give her a beetroot and buy her drinks...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of South Africa rulings this week included ruling against Telkom's "Do Broadband" television and Internet-based advertising campaign (M&G Online; in favour of the controversial NetFlorist's spitting secretary ad for Secretarty's Day; and against a Kulula.com email ad which left out airport charges.

For more:

• M&G Online: FirstRand loses court bid to gag Noseweek
  
• Business Day: Noseweek to publish as judge denies bank gag
  
• Business Report: FirstRand clients to be named, shamed

• Business Day: Department takes ad to defend Manto

• Mail & Guardian Online: ASA: Telkom's broadband not broad enough
  
• IOL: Thumbs up for spitting secretary ad
  
• IOL: ASA grounds airline advertisement