Sekunjalo's INMSA deal concerns Sanef

NEWSWATCH: The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) is concerned at the manner in which Iqbal Survé's Sekunjalo group is going about its acquisition of Independent News & Media South Africa (INMSA), reports IOL. Mail & Guardian reports on Facebook bowing to an outcry over sexist content, and also reports on pirates - the film, that is - in Cape Town.

By Rod Baker

30 May 2013

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IOL: Sanef concerned about INMSA deal... Iqbal Survé is already miffed over the amount of comment, conjecture and concerns being voiced over his group's buyout of INMSA, and now Sanef has joined the fray.
What concerns many observers is the coy manner in which the deal is seemingly being conducted... We would like to know who is involved in the deal, in what capacity and so on... In other words, we simply want to know what's going on, and if Survé wants a bit of peace and quiet, all he needs to do is tell us what we want to know.
As Nic Dawes, in an open letter to Competition Commissioner Shan Ramburuth, wrote: "A singular feature of Sekunjalo's application is the lack of information about the people who are members of the consortium representing the company."
The other aspect is, of course, that the publications concerned will not simply become government mouthpieces, which is why Sanef wants assurances that, "the constitutional mandate of journalists employed at Independent News & Media South Africa (INMSA) will be protected if the company is acquired by Sekunjalo Independent Media."
Mail & Guardian: Facebook bows to outcry over sexist content... Get this straight: Rape, abuse, and violence against women are nothing to laugh about.
That's why Facebook faced a week-long campaign by Women, Action and the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and the activist Soraya Chemaly, plus many other advocacy groups, to remove supposedly humorous content endorsing rape and domestic violence on its site.
And in the face-off, Facebook has agreed to the right thing - but why did it need a campaign to get the company to do that?
Mail & Guardian: Pirate TV series provides lift for SA film industry... Well shiver me timbers... Capetonians could be forgiven for wondering why full-rigged sailing ships have turned up, but they are not Somali pirates going retro, simply props for Black Sails, a TV series about pirates and one of the largest productions ever made in SA.

Rod Baker

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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.