Mzanele Manyi, former ANC spokesman and owner of ANN7 lock channel, reportedly announced his breakaway from the ANC on Wednesday and will soon announce where his political home would be. This follows the rumours that former SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng announced his new party’s name, the African Content Movement. According to Motsoeneng, he wants to..
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Former SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng announces new party and wants to force current president out of office with coming elections
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ANC won’t demand more resignations after Nene quits – Jessie Duarte
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Ministers should decide for themselves if they will resign after appearing before the commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture. They should, however, apply a test of whether they are complicit in corruption says the ANC.
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Department of Home Affairs on Thursday raided ANN7 studio’s
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Johannesburg – The Department of Home Affairs on Thursday confirmed that a routine inspection was undertaken at TV station ANN7’s studios in Midrand.
Earlier on, it emerged that immigration officials had raided ANN7 offices and that officials were currently locked in a meeting with HR managers, who were checking permits.
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MultiChoice urged to ‘come clean’ regarding transactions with ANN7
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Ongoing revelations contained in the Gupta leaks have revealed allegedly questionable payments by MultiChoice to ANN7 and the involvement of former communications minister Faith Muthambi. “Hiding behind confidentiality clauses and telling half-truths is no longer an option in today’s world of citizen power‚ when the public can exercise its purchase strength to trigger the demise..
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Cyril Ramaphosa’s leaked emails: Echoes of apartheid-era dirty tricks
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A routine smear. This is the view of the overwhelming majority of commentators and analysts about last weekend’s “revelations” in the Sunday Independent that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was a serial womaniser. The commentariat can expect more such smears. They will come against more than one candidate running for the presidency of the governing ANC..
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Gupta owned companies New Age and ANN7 sold to Mzwanele Manyi for R450m
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A company owned by Mzwanele Manyi has forked out R450-million to buy The New Age (TNA) Media and ANN7 from Gupta-owned firm Oakbay. Oakbay announced the sale of its newspaper and TV channel on Monday, saying the agreement with the company Lodidox would conclude over the “next few weeks”. “We are delighted to have reached..
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