Reg Rumney favours the partial privatisation of the SABC:
And not every State asset is strategic. What’s strategic about the SABC when the Broadcast Act obliges all broadcasters, public and private, to do the State’s bidding? Or is strategy in this context another word for propaganda?
SABC 3, which I understand is not performing its intended role [...]

My friend Kyle on media culture in South Africa:
Why isn’t the media stronger in South Africa? Sure you could say it’s young, but I don’t buy that – especially since we’re supposed to have a very activisty past, complete with Journos Risking Their Lives for Truth™. Besides, one doesn’t need much money to take a [...]

I think Pierre de Vos mostly gets the better of David Bullard in this exchange, although it’s hard to tell because they’re arguing different things. Here’s De Vos, arguing (correctly) that Bullard’s forced exit from the Sunday Times was not a case of “censorship”, because the Sunday Times is not the South African government:
No one [...]

I love the blatant contradiction between this News24 headline and the actual content of the article underneath it.