NEWSWATCH: The interim board has compiled SABC CEO interview results and an announcement will be made after auditing and the best candidate selected, says Business Report. Meanwhile, the ANC is upset with what it deems "negative and irresponsible" media reports on the former health minister's health, reports IOL. Google has offered a compromise over issues surrounding online news, writes the Mail & Guardian and local aspiring manufacturers of set-top boxes for the introduction of digital TV reckon the government is excluding them, according to Business Report.
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Business Report: New head of SABC to be named soon… Interviews are complete, the results have been compiled by the interim board, now they will be audited; thereafter Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda will announce the name of the new head of the SABC.
IOL: 'Comrade Manto deserves privacy'… The ANC is very upset with the media over its handling of Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's health issues.
Mail & Guardian: Google offers online news compromise… Google has offered a compromise to news media after Rupert Murdoch, amongst others, said Google was profiting from news produced by the media.
Business Report: Digital TV deadline faces set-top hurdle… Local manufacturers, who don't want to be named for fear of victimisation, say government processes to select manufacturers of the set-top boxes for digital TV are sidelining them; their concerns could mean the April deadline could be missed.
