HASSAN HOWA – MY CRICKET DAD
Many years later, when I thought about my brief career as a cricketer, I reluctantly agreed (with myself) that I
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Dougie heads up Dougie Oakes Communications, a consultancy specialising in all facets of corporate communication, including strategy and public relations
JUST ANOTHER POOR BOY: BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE ATHLETICS TRACK
I was a sports fanatic at school, and I shared the same problems as thousands of other pupils who had
Continue readingTHERE WAS NOT A HINT OF CORRUPTION, THEFT AND LIES ABOUT ROBERT MANGALISO SOBUKWE
I don’t like Jacob Zuma. I don’t believe a word he says. I believe that if he is charged with
Continue readingTHERE WAS NOT A HINT OF CORRUPTION, THEFT AND LIES ABOUT ROBERT MANGALISO SOBUKWE
I don’t like Jacob Zuma. I don’t believe a word he says. I believe that if he is charged with
Continue readingTHERE WAS NOT A HINT OF CORRUPTION, THEFT AND LIES ABOUT ROBERT MANGALISO SOBUKWE
I don’t like Jacob Zuma. I don’t believe a word he says. I believe that if he is charged with
Continue readingTHE FIGHT MUST GO ON
THROUGHOUT my career in sports journalism, I’ve never made excuses for being a ‘different’ kind of sports reporter – a
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Dennis Brutus, the public face of the struggle for non-racial sport in the early 1960s, was put on trial in
Continue readingIT’S TIME TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF NEWSPAPERS IN THE APARTHEID ERA
IT’S easy to back the decision by the South African Editors’ Forum to instruct the Sunday Times to apologise to
Continue reading‘Hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye’
JUST because Iqbal Survé trumpets transformation at every opportunity, just because he accuses his critics and critics of the companies
Continue readingHow to bungle a billion Rands – Independent Media’s journey to the bottom
IT IS high time that the ridiculous assertion be buried that Iqbal Survé helped to liberate black media workers of
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