Blacks say Zille “deserves a bullet”. And her response?

Last week Sunday morning I woke up to a group debate on Facebook that challenged (or did it invite?) people to share their views on whether Democratic Alliance leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille was “still” haunted by her 20 March tweet in which she referred to pupils from Eastern Cape province seeking better education in hers as “education refugees”. To date Zille had on more than two occasions written about the incident.

Youth Dynamix research on SA youth being disillusioned misleading or just misrepresentative?

Youth Dynamix (YDx), a youth-specialist consultancy research body has published worrying and questionable research findings that many of us South African youths are disillusioned, Biz Community web site reported today.

YCL should not fiddle in UFS’s territory

How long will we continue to blame the poor performance of our students on the Department of Education alone and not the students themselves? Aren’t they, the students, the ones learning, if not failing to learn?

Financial Times editor on Why Journalism Matters

These are the best of times of journalism, especially if you are a business journalist because the profession has a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to report, analyse and comment on the most serious financial crisis since the Great Crash of 1929” and it also has the worst of times because the “news business is suffering from the cyclical shock of a deep recession and the structural change driven by the internet revolution”, said Financial Times editor Lionel Barber last year while addressing British Academy on Why Journalism Matters.

A multi-lingual newspaper possible?

Seeing the Sunday Times launching in Zulu and that News24 also recently launched a Zulu version made me feel bad about the continued marginalization of other languages, Setswana to be precise, that have not had or seen their embracement such as Zulu, Afrikaans and English have, with dedicated newspapers for its speakers.