NEWSWATCH: Kuli Roberts has paid the price for pushing the envelope, and peoples' buttons, with her column in last Sunday's Sunday World... Mail & Guardian reports that her column has been discontinued with immediate effect.
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Mail & Guardian: Weekly Kuli Roberts column to be discontinued... Kuli Roberts really hit a nerve with her column in last Sunday's Sunday World in a column headlined Jou Ma se Kinders in which she made some rather injudicious points that a large number of readers regarded as racist. Well, it's not the first time a columnist has been shot at dawn, and it is very unlikely to be the last. One question, however - didn't the editor or one of the other senior staff check the column before it went into the paper and on line for all to see?
