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Throughout the ‘New Frame’ controversy, holier-than-thou bourgeois-baiters and obsessive players of the race card have shown why the hard left has condemned itself to the political margins

Evidence suggests that the publication was held hostage by its main donor, Roy Singham; that its failure to diversify its funding was a feature, not a bug; and that when it came to be regarded as less useful politically, it was deliberately abandoned, rather than being given the chance to gain...

Evidence suggests the publication was hostage to its main donor, Roy Singham, and the
 train of events suggests that when it came to be regarded as less useful politically it was deliberately abandoned, rather than being given the chance to gain real independence.

Most reporters at progressive online publication New Frame have reached confidential settlements with the site's owners, which include non-disparagement clauses curbing what they can say about their work there.

Eswatini Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini announced that online news publication Swaziland News and its editor are terrorists...

What is not published is at least as significant as what is, but this does not mean the editor is a blue-pencil wielding ‘censor’. It does however mean that avoidance of certain topics or passivity about them are telling.

New Frame achieved much, but was also an unworkable proposition given its very high costs.

Undocumented immigrants often don’t report crimes perpetrated against them to the police, fearing that they may be detained for living illegally in South Africa. Undocumented immigrants often don’t report crimes against them, fearing that they may be detained for living in SA illegally.

Over the past four years, progressive online publication New Frame won admiration for its reporting on labour and social justice. The abrupt announcement that it is shutting down has caused expressions of outrage and betrayal — as well as some worrying political allegations. How did a seeming...

The online publication’s left-wing perspective provided some much-needed diversity. Now its alternative voice has joined the growing number of silenced newsrooms in an age of digital disruption, dwindling circulations and shaky revenue models.