EDITORIAL: Mzwanele Manyi has his work cut out
‘Like several of Manyi’s other schemes, this one looks like a similarly silly idea’
The wonderful thing about Mzwanele Manyi’s "purchase" of the Gupta media interests is that at last he will enter the world of business, having sniped from the sidelines for long enough. Even though ANN7 and The New Age are strange businesses, and this is an even stranger transaction, there is a possibility that his new responsibilities will distract him from discovering "dossiers" on his doorstep that smear public servants; laying charges at police stations; and twarring on social media. Then again, it might not. The New Age and ANN7 will be the perfect repository of even more dossiers and even more stories on trumped-up investigations into President Jacob Zuma’s political enemies. ANN7 has mimicked the style of far-right US "news network" Breitbart, bombarding the audience with conspiracy theories, fake news and hysteria, all intended to create a climate of "unknowability" where one set of facts or version of reality is just that: a version of events that exists alongside other ver...
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