Vodacom Mozambique, A subsidiary of South Africa´s Vodacom, has acknowledged that the Mozambican telecommunications authority ordered cell phone operators to block all text messages, after a viral campaign sparked riots last week, a company source said here Wednesday.[more]

Proposals made by the ANC in Gauteng on regulation of the media will be presented at the ANC national general council meeting taking place in Durban next week.[more]

The state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been ordered by an arbitration tribunal to re-instate several journalists it fired two years ago, reports jocoza correspondent. A ruling delivered in Harare found the state broadcaster at fault for dismissing the journalists who were accused of supporting the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) main faction led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.[more]

Suspended Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Managing Director David Waweru has been sacked, three months after allegations of graft against him first surfaced, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za.[more]

International news agencies alarmed by South African proposals that could see reporters jailed should not fear freedoms are under attack, the president said Friday, adding that South Africa has one of the world's most progressive constitutions.[more]

NewsDay has tripled its circulation and surpassed advertising expectations, but more importantly Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper has become a much-quoted agenda-setting title in Southern Africa.[more]

Governing bodies are getting worried about a lack of control over sports stars tweeting their thoughts free from the filter of spin. Amir Khan uses it to trash potential opponents, Andy Murray to poke fun at his entourage, Kevin Pietersen to express his innermost thoughts on England's selectors, and Rio Ferdinand and Robbie Savage to wind each other up. The number of sports stars addicted to Twitter, the social networking and microblogging site, is growing fast. It is rapidly changing the way they interact with the media and the public and for some it is already a costly pastime.[more]

Government attacks on the press have ensured that it is hard to question journalists’ priorities for fear of being seen to encourage censorship. But it should be possible both to defend the press’s right to tell us everything we need to know and to complain that, in the main, it does not tell us — to oppose not only the controls politicians place on papers but those journalists place on themselves.[more]

Pretoria — Government has welcomed the fact that the debate on a proposed Media Appeals Tribunal has now entered Parliament. "As Government, we welcome debates in the spirit of promoting free exchanges of views and ideas, and to enable informed policy making process," President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday, responding to questions in the National Assembly.

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The evening of President Kagame's swearing in ceremony, former Rwandan Prime Minister, Faustin Twaguramungu, was on BBC 's Focus on Africa again. The elder politician said it was a great day for Kagame and recognized the support President Kagame received from fellow African leaders as a sign of solidarity and confidence.

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