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Media focus on ANC leadership race
NEWSWATCH: IOL this week launched a special page covering the African National Congress leadership race, according to its editorial blog, Inside IOL. Meanwhile, Business Day reports that tonight's two-hour radio interview with president Thabo Mbeki – on 15 SABC radio stations – has sparked outraged, with accusations of bias.
Prof Anton Harber also takes a critical look at assessing how well the media has been covering and predicting the succession race so far in Business Day today, Wednesday, 5 December.
Lastly, SANEF has condemned the alleged arrest of Radio Islam journalist Azhar Vadi by police on Tuesday, 4 December 2007, while he was reporting on a car accident in Lenasia, Johannesburg and is calling for an investigation. The police report no knowledge of the arrest.
For more:
- IOL: Polokwane 2007
- Inside IOL: Everything you ever wanted to know about Polokwane 2007
- Business Day: Mbeki's SABC ‘special‘ raises hackles
- Business Day: Lessons for media in Zuma's big splash
- Mail & Guardian Online: Sanef condemns arrest of reporters in Lenasia

About Simone Puterman
Simone Puterman (@SimoneAtLarge) is currently editor-at-large at Marklives.com and deputy chair of the Sanef online editors subcommittee. After majoring in psychology and linguistics at Rhodes University, and then completing her honours in psychology, she has been in the world of B2B publishing since 1997, with 7.5 year stints at both WriteStuff Publishing and Bizcommunity.com (March 2006-August 2013). Email her at moc.sevilkram@enomis.