My highlights for 2010. What’s yours?

For me personally, I’d like to think that media freedom and the threat thereof have been one of the highlights for this year. For example: there is now Zapiro vs. Zuma issue underway and just before that we had the successful Supreme Court of Appeal ruling in favouring the Mail & Guardian newspaper and giving the presidency seven days to issue the newspaper with the Zimbabwe report commission by former president Thabo Mbeki although this is likely to be challenged through the Constitutional Court. 

Raila Odinga on why Africans “cannot continue blaming the colonialists” for its problems

Raila Odinga – a Kenyan Prime Minister who once claimed to be US President Barack Obama’s cousin – delivered a moving speech to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Moran Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change party this year that “40 or 50 years since many African nations attained independence, we [Africans] cannot continue blaming the colonialists for our problems”.

Has Sunday Times breached the Press Codes on its ‘Dis-Grace’ story?

As previously preached elsewhere, I really do enjoy and like writing about media and politics and of course other stuff and cannot help but wonder at the uncalled-for reporting by many South African newspapers. And Sunday Times newspaper headline report (or was it an opinion?) was no different at all.