Launch of State Newspaper
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 28 Mar, 2011City Press (26 March 2011) reports that the government is launching its own newspaper and it will be published by the head of government communications, Jimmy Manyi. The government’s bi-monthly magazine, Vuk’uzenzele, will be turned into a monthly tabloid newspaper with a print run of two million from next month. And Manyi’s plan is to publish it fortnightly by March next year.
The newspaper will be edited by former Beeld journalist Tyrone Seale, who is currently the managing editor of Vuk’uzenzele magazine and the GCIS’s chief director of content and writing.
Here's a response from Shepherd Mpofu, of Wits University's School of Journalism published on Bizcommunity.com.