EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Ben Ngubane says ANN7 does a ‘tremendously good job’
Chamber of Mines spurns last-minute invitation by Mosebenzi Zwane, and when is a security camera not really a security camera?
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Former SABC chairperson Ben Ngubane, in his first interview on ANN7, praised it as "the voice of the majority of the people of this country", saying "Gupta TV" was "doing a tremendously good job" — which is possibly true considering the state he left the public broadcaster in, not to mention Eskom. Contradicting Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s claim that it was not unusual for him, while heading the Department of Home Affairs, to bend the law to grant the Gupta brothers South African citizenship, legal experts say it was extremely fishy. In My Opinion Matters of debate Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel was the architect of the New Growth Path. Business didn’t trust him and his unionist background and preferred Trevor Manuel, steward of the National Development Plan. Their policy blueprints had more in common than in substantive difference, writes Richard Calland. Durban city officials helped MTN expand its network by disguising...
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