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An Independent 'gift for Madiba'

By Rod Baker

8 Apr 2013

NEWSWATCH: Iqbal Survé's Sekunjalo consortium has bought Ireland's Independent News and Media South African interests for R2bn, and reckons it's 'a gift' for Madiba, reports IOL; meanwhile MTN as been accused of stealing an entrepreneur's intellectual property, reports BD Live.

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

For more: News group purchase 'a gift for Madiba'... According to the report, Survé phoned Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, on Friday evening and said: "Tell Madiba, Independent's coming home", apparently to be told that "If there's one thing that will make him get better faster, it's this."

OK.

BD Live: MTN under fire over travel idea... An entrepreneur, Fraser Gregg, MD of MobiRes, has accused MTN of stealing his intellectual property, a travel booking product, which he reckons he has been working on with MTN since 2010.

Thus far it's pretty much a case of "we said" and "they said", but whatever the outcome, someone's reputation stands a chance of being dented.

Rod Baker

About Rod Baker

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.