Tebogo Tsotetsi was in Cape Town on Wednesday and spoke about the overwhelming support they had received since the news broke of the Guinness World Record birth.
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Chief operations officer for Independent Media Takudzwa Hove, left, with Sunday Independent editor Zingisa Mkhuma and Pretoria News editor Piet Rampedi. Hove says the constant desire to silence Independent Media highlights the very reason why the PIC was interested in investing in the publishing house in the first place. Picture: Karen Sandison/African News Agency (ANA)
Independent Media presents its case to SCoF, restates threat to media freedom
CAPE TOWN – CAPE TOWN – Independent Media on Wednesday observed how peculiar it was, that the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), claiming to act for pensioners, had instituted summons against SIM and Independent Media and had not offered any support or attempt to defend media freedom and journalism.
Busting the myth about a R2bn loan from the PIC
By Bongani Hans
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Sekunjalo Independent Media Consortium has busted the myth that the purchase of Independent Media, the biggest media group in the country, from the Irish for R2 billion was only through funding from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC).
The company appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance (SCoF) on Wednesday to detail the facts of how its umbrella body, Sekunjalo Group, actually sealed a deal with the Irish media company, which was the owner of Independent Media in South Africa at the time.
Independent Media’s delegation included Sekunjalo’s executive chairman, Dr Iqbal Survé, chief operating officer Takudzwa Hove, editor-in-chief Aneez Salie, editor of The Star, Sifiso Mahlangu, and Daily News editor Ayanda Mdluli.