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Mmegi: A newspaper of innumerable awards and honours (Part 2)

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Some of the early Mmegi envoys to reputable organisations abroad were then Arts & Culture reporter Pamela Dube who would first ply her trade as a Political Reporter at South Africa’s Sowetan in 1994 and later move to Sunday Independent newspaper.

She would soon be followed by then Acting Business Editor, Mpho Maine-Oliphant, who was recruited by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to anchor their political magazine programme, Newsline, of the early 1990s.

Maine-Oliphant would later join one of SA’s key State Owned Enterprises (SOE), Portnet to become the Executive Communications manager. Sometime in 1997, yours truly would be headhunted by one of SA’s top advertising agencies to become Art Director in their Creative Department. This was after I had earlier stints at The Agency and Herdbouys & McCann Errickson agencies during vacations as a creative trainee from 1994 to 1996. Trainer of trainers

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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