INDEPENDENT Media have been forced to apologise for their smear campaign. "During March 2020 Daily News published an article titled ‘Daily Maverick asked me to write and do negative tweets about Dr Iqbal Survé’ in print and on its digital platform within Independent Online. The article accused Da...

(Another unpublished letter to the Cape Times) Dear Ed De Lille says ‘schizophrenic, mad’ Ehrenreich has lost the political plot". Cape Times 17 April refers The medical dismissal of Tony Ehrenreich by mayor Patricia de Lille has overtones of Nazism. The Nazi regime relegated all those it disagre...

IT'S amazing what difference a week can make in the lives of today's corporate executives. Take the changing fortune of deposed INM board member Ivan "The Terrible" Fallon, or the fate of media tycoon, Tony O'Reilly, replaced by son Gavin? After the INM night of the long knives, with one other O'...

A Canadian government ethics committee wants to hear from Independent Group's Brian Mulroney again. According to Juliet O'Neill of the  Canwest News Service, Ottawa's House of Commons ethics committee voted 6-5 on Thursday to recall the former Canadian prime minister to testify yet again about hi...

THE Cape Times is gambling that enough people in this country suffer from collective amnesia – that readers will forget what happened last week, or the week before that, and even last year and the year before. They are waging a bet that a small judgement against them means nothing. The Independen...