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Many news bulletins and radio discussions about a distressing news item this week started with a warning to listeners travelling with children to turn down the volume because the content about to be discussed contained graphic detail.

The Daily Dispatch and its sister publications, The Herald and Weekend Post, took home the lion’s share of praise dished out at this year’s Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) awards for the Eastern Cape region announced on Thursday.

The Herald and its sister publication, Daily Dispatch, walked away with top honours at the 2022 edition of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) awards for the Eastern Cape region, scooping seven of the 12 award categories between them.

Gqeberha crowds can expect to get their funny bones tickled when popular gagster Schalk Bezuidenhout brings his epic one-man comedy show to the city later in October.

While the families of eight people killed in a shooting spree in Nelson Mandela Bay fear the murders will not be prioritised by police, four people have already been taken in for questioning after a suspected hideout in Summerstrand was infiltrated on Friday.

Rhodes University has conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on journalist, anti-apartheid activist and high commissioner to Namibia, Thenjiwe Mtintso.

Former Daily Dispatch staff member Ray Hartle was among a group of alumni honoured by Rhodes University’s school of journalism and media studies (JMS) in Cape Town on Thursday. The journalism school recognised its most distinguished graduates at a gala dinner hosted by vice-chancellor Prof Sizwe Mabizela at Lagoon Beach Hotel.

“Tired of struggling for water”, read a headline in The Herald earlier this week.The article highlighted the plight of Moeggesukkel — ironically, translated it means tired of struggling — who have been battling to access water in the Bethelsdrop informal settlement in Nelson Mandela Bay for nearly a year.

A Herald journalist has been forced to vacate her Plettenberg Bay home after intimidating messages were posted on a community WhatsApp group about her coverage of the ongoing clashes between foreign nationals and locals in Kwanokuthula.

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