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International News

Major media websites go down worldwide

Multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, CNN, and Bloomberg News were down across the globe on Tuesday. Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network was also affected. France’s Le Monde newspaper started showing error messages that appeared on the website at around 10:00 GMT. US’s Colonial Pipeline announces restart following cyberattack Separately, Amazon.com Inc’s retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to […]

today8 June 2021

Local

Amnesty International calls on state to reaffirm trust in media

Amnesty International South Africa has called on government and politicians to publically reaffirm trust in the media as the world marks Press Freedom Day. Amnesty International reiterated the call that independent journalists must be allowed to do their work free of harassment, intimidation, threats and reprisals. When the entire country was forced into hard lockdown restrictions, many South African’s turned to their news channels and social media platforms to find […]

today4 May 2021

News

Karima Brown, one of SA’s fearless and brilliant journalists dies

Veteran journalist and political commentator Karima Brown passed away due to COVID-19 complications on Thursday. Brown had been in hospital for several weeks and was on a ventilator. She was 53 years old. She was a seasoned journalist, broadcaster and media executive and had worked for SABC, Independent Group, Primedia and eMedia amongst others. Brown's political roots stem from her activism in the ANC and her family. She is known […]

today4 March 2021

News

#ANC54: Chaos as members of the media stage a walkout

Chaos erupted at the 54th National Conference moments before the newly appointed president of the African National Conference addressed media at the Progressive Business Forum stalls. This followed over an hour wait for the first media address by Cyril Ramaphosa as the 14th president of the ruling party, frustrated members of the media arguing that the wait set a bad precedent for the president's term. The incident also called to […]

today19 December 2017

Events

Cape Town Leadership Conference set to Inspire

On Saturday, 30th September, all roads will lead to the Baxter Theatre where some of South Africa’s inspiring leaders will share their recipe of success at the AccidentalMuslims.com Leadership Conference, themed “Live with Purpose.” AccidentalMuslims.com is a movement whereby current and future leaders, in their respective professional and social fields, inspires others to live with purpose. The not for profit initiative is the brainchild of Cape Town-based Zaheer Parker and […]

today28 September 2017

News

How Israels media propaganda dominates America

By Yaseen Kippie “Whether Marwan Barghouti sneaking snacks in during his hunger strike is trivial to such a degree that the fact that it’s on American newspapers tells you something about the power of Israeli public relations to control the narrative,” - Robert Jensen It is easily noticed that the overwhelming voice covering the Palestinian hunger strike is Israeli media. While this may seem normal for opposing governments to employ […]

today11 May 2017

Opinions

The Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?

By Ramzy Baroud I fear that many of us are hating Donald Trump for the wrong reasons. Multitudes are being swayed by mainstream media-inspired demonization of the new US president, based on selective assumptions and half-truths. US mainstream media, which rarely deviates from supporting the American government’s conduct, however reckless, is now presenting Trump as if an aberration of otherwise egalitarian, sensible, and peace-loving US policies at home and abroad. […]

today12 February 2017

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