Sowetan acting editor takes responsibility, steps down

In turn, Brendan Boyle, will become editor at Daily Dispatch. Boyle is currently the parliamentary bureau chief of Avusa Media, runs the politics section of Times Live and has a weekly column in the Avusa daily, The Times. These changes are all effective immediately.

Although Maseko was on leave at the time, according to a statement from Avusa, he accepts the consequences of this lapse in the paper's judgment, which allowed the column to appear.

"We are incredibly pleased"

Comments Mondli Makhanya, Avusa Media editor-in-chief, "Mpumelelo Mkhabela is one of the country's most respected journalists and political commentators and we are incredibly pleased that he will be at the helm of Sowetan. [He] believes in strong debate and editorial integrity, while also embracing the synergy between print and digital media."

Continues Makhanya, "Brendan has seen it all. He knows nearly everything there is to know about the functioning of South African society and is undoubtedly an authority on political and economic issues."

Mkhabela, who cut his teeth as a reporter at City Press, holds a journalism honours degree from Stellenbosch University and also holds honours degrees in political science and international politics from the University of Limpopo and UNISA respectively.

For more:

• Sowetan Live: Sorry, Ferial and all
  
• Daily Maverick: Sowetan plays safe by saying sorry... turns out Maseko has reverted to being deputy editor
  
• Daily Maverick: Anton Harber on Miyeni, Avusa and responsible editors
  
• Mail & Guardian: Miyeni calls for top editor's head after Avusa shake-up
  
• News24: Free speech is never absolute by Max du Preez]]
  
• Business Day: The likes of Malema and Miyeni only stifle debate by Anton Harber

For More list added at 9.28am on 4 August 2011.
For More list updated at 12.55pm on 4 August 2011.