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The year 2025: Media's sniveling year

Lebogang Mosikare (Reporter)
Lebogang Mosikare (Reporter)

To the journalism fraternity, the year 2025 will go down in the annals of history as an excruciating year, following the deaths of four comrades across the media divide at the prime of their careers. Writes Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE

In the vernacular, sometimes a bad year is condemned to the gutters, to the extent of wishing it never existed, “Ngwaga o o sa nthateng ga o fete.”

To their fellow scribes and family members, the year 2025 is a year they will definitely choose to forget swiftly. This is because the year had inflicted untold pain and misery, as death had struck when it mattered the most. Journalists are comfortable telling their stories, including bereavement or tributes of the people they cover. When death struck the fraternity, pain was written everywhere.

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