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Multi-Media wins Best Sound Design at the Naledi Theatre Awards

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Gagasi FM unveils exciting new line-up

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AI projects are failing at alarming rates, and the problem started long before AI

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Back to basics: The retail fundamentals that drive real outcomes

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1 Apr 2026

Agency of experts acquires bass player

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1 Apr 2026

MDDA Board approves 32 community print and broadcast projects for grant funding

Media Development and Diversity Agency MDDA Board approves 32 community print and broadcast projects for grant funding

1 Apr 2026

Bridging the CIO and CFO divide: How South African business can approve AI with confidence

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1 Apr 2026

How the smartest South African companies build their marketing strategy

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1 Apr 2026

Caxton Media puts SA brands at the heart of the world’s biggest sports event

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Ascent Africa advances into AI and intelligence with acquisition of Africa-built Clarence AI

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Terry Bell has died. Source: X.

Terry Bell: Celebrated South African journalist passes away at 84

26 Mar 2026

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Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout

Rob Nicholls 26 Mar 2026

The SABC has addressed the ongoing discussion around the cancellation of the SABC news channel show Face the Nation (Image source: © SABC News Image credits: Luyanda Danca)

SABC: Face the Nation cancelled due to underperformance, not political interference

24 Mar 2026

New SABC’s executive of news & current affairs appointed

New SABC’s executive of news & current affairs appointed

20 Mar 2026

Podcast with MacG is widely popular in South Africa with hundreds of thousands of views per episode. Source: YouTube.

Government takes baby steps to regulate podcast industry

Karabo Ledwaba 18 Mar 2026

Today Die Papier, the new weekly Afrikaans newspaper from Novus Media, launches, available nationwide in print and online through its digital platforms (Image supplied)

Die Papier launches

6 Mar 2026

Justice Ponnan has accepted the appointment as chairperson of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa’s (BCCSA) Appointment and Appeals Committee (AAC) (Image supplied)

Justice Ponnan appointment to uphold broadcasting integrity

6 Mar 2026

Source: (Journalist in the Gaza Strip)

Record number of journalists killed in 2025

26 Feb 2026

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“The more things change…”: From Joe Latakgomo to deepfakes

Karabo Ledwaba 24 Feb 2026

Joe Latakgomo in 1988. Source: YouTube.

Sowetan founding editor Joe Latakgomo has passed away

Karabo Ledwaba 23 Feb 2026

Exclusive | Die Papier editor, Barnard Beukman: “Print is alive and with us"

Exclusive | Die Papier editor, Barnard Beukman: “Print is alive and with us"

Wilma de Bruin 17 Feb 2026

Over 50 countries will gather in Pretoria to advance accountability, transparency, and user rights on digital platforms. (Source: )

South Africa hosts global summit on digital platform governance

11 Feb 2026

Jimmy Lai in conversation with BBC. Source: YouTube.

Hong Kong court sentences publisher Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison

9 Feb 2026

DNTF's new grant provides R100,000 to early-stage publishers

4 Feb 2026

TikTok avoids looming threat of US ban

23 Jan 2026

Journalists’ sentencing in Tunisia seen as retaliation, claims family

23 Jan 2026

$2500 awaits you! How to enter the 2026 SADC Media Awards

21 Jan 2026

Tunisian journalist Chatha Belhaj Mubarak freed after sentence cut

Tarek Amara 15 Jan 2026

MDDA partners with Google to empower community media through local-language digital skills training

Media Development and Diversity Agency 13 Jan 2026

Censorship concerns rise as Uganda blocks live coverage of election protests

Reuters 6 Jan 2026

Big Tech, AI, and violence: How South African journalism is being tested

Karabo Ledwaba 5 Dec 2025

eNCA's Checkpoint investigation triumphs at Vodacom Journalist Awards

5 Dec 2025

News influencers are reshaping the media – insights from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

Amy Ross Arguedas and Nic Newman 28 Nov 2025

Tunisian reporters take to the streets to oppose crackdowns

Tarek Amara 21 Nov 2025

International Journalist Day: 2,535 journalists killed since 1992

19 Nov 2025

President Ramaphosa pleased with M20 Johannesburg Declaration initiative

19 Nov 2025

The BBC-Trump saga: Questioning integrity in journalism and PR

Hayley Hillary 13 Nov 2025

BBC director-general Tim Davie steps down amid Trump scandal

10 Nov 2025

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