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South Africa: South African Media Laughs On April Fools
MarkLives.com, 3 April 2013
April 1, a day in which the mainstream media plays tricks on readers by publishing/broadcasting stories that ranges from the plausible but untrue to the improbable, and disguises… Read more »
S Africa: Media Celebrates April Fools' Day
The media had fun on the annual April Fools' Day, as it was not obliged to report on facts and accuracy - but poked fun instead.
Former ANC Youth League president and political firebrand Julius Malema has joined the Democratic Alliance.
Paralympian (and murder-accused) Oscar Pistorius will lead South Africas team in Kim Jong-Uns latest initiative, aimed at building bridges between less-understood world regimes and less-understood global figures. According to unconfirmed reports, Pistoriuss brave and principled stand inspired the Young Leader to launch the Friendship Run.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan proposed at the weekend that a levy of 50c/MB be imposed on broadband users from next year to make up for dwindling government tax receipts.
The government has announced that Mxlish has been included as South Africas 12th official language.
From the printed word to the multimedia tablet, the Guardian has embraced technology like no other newspaper. Now, Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief, unveils the latest exciting step in the Guardians mission to harness the power of online media: Guardian Goggles, delivering our quality journalism straight between the eyes
This story says BitTorrent downloads and access to popular torrent tracking websites like The Pirate Bay are set to be blocked in South Africa
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Africa: Google, Microsoft Poke Each Other for April Fools'
CIO, 2 April 2013
Microsoft on Monday took another shot at rival Google, the target of its "Scroggled" campaign, with an April Fools' Day prank that turned its Bing search engine into a Google… Read more »
