The news media in South Africa is under considerable financial and operational pressure. This is mostly due to the wave of digital disruption, which has shaken the very foundations of the industry. How do we access credible and trustworthy sources of information in this environment? In this episode of the 'Solutions With David Ansara' podcast, I speak with journalist and commentator, Kanthan Pillay, about the future of news media.
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Air India Hijack
Hijackers seized an Air India Boeing 707 jetliner with 79 passengers and crew aboard after it left the Seychelles Islands early Thursday and forced it to fly to South Africa. It landed at Durban shortly after 5 a.m. local time. I was first on the scene with Surendra "Puri" Devjee in the picture with me. 26 November 1981
Demo Africa
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Angels in desolation
'In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty,' Phil Ochs once said ...
DAWN was breaking over the magnificent desolation of the Karoo landscape as cats eyes flung themselves...
The butterfly that stamped
This is the 9th month of the year 1999. There are 99 days to go to the last year of this century. Do you feel a sense of destiny?
A BUTTERFLY flapped his wings in East Timor, setting up...
Death of a friend
Living in South Africa has a numbing effect on a human being. One soon becomes almost unaware of the daily cycle of violence, destruction, and death. Reports of children being...
Jo'burg, the place of miracles
How we deal with death is as important as how we deal with life...
Picture a modern-day Rip van Winkle, rising from slumber in the area north of Pretoria. He walks down the...
Happy birthday Mr Morris
"It was the worst of times, it was the best of times; it was the age of foolishness, it was the age of wisdom; it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the epoch of belief; it was the...Lamenting the loss of innocence
If you knew that a rose would scream, would you still pluck it?
CHILD ABUSE is one of my psychological buttons. I suppose my reaction to someone who is accused of doing any...