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Namibia is a destination market for many South African goods and services. But the media market is very different.

Comrade Editor is the candid story of Gwen Lister, the activist journalist who achieved global renown for opposing South Africa’s occupation of Namibia. Lister cut her journalistic teeth under the tutelage of Hannes ‘Mal Smittie’ Smith at the Windhoek Advertiser. Together they started the...

Aljoscha Kohlstock, News24 Slabber was a prominent Afrikaans media figure between the 1970s and 1990s. In 2020, three men laid charges against Slabber for allegedly sexually abusing them when they were boys. Coenie Slabber, a former Rapport arts editor accused of sexually abusing young boys for many years - an allegation he vehemently denied - died in his sleep in Cape Town in the early hours of Tuesday. Slabbers former colleague of 14 years Eddie Botha, as well as two other sources close to Sl...