Lance Witten

Editor-in-Chief, IOL

Journalism is about balance, not impartiality

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Each journalist, each editor, each business owner, each shareholder has their inherent agency to consider; a lens through which they see and interpret the world. ...

Why ALL men are trash and need to take responsibility for gender-based violence

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You don't have to have raped someone or assaulted them to be trash. All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.

Don't judge our parenting when bad things happen to our children

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It's a knee-jerk reaction. Something bad happens to a child, and the first question that is asked is: "Where were the parents?"

#TrainArson: Cape Town is under attack

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The attacks on Cape Town's trains can be seen as acts of terrorism, says the writer.

#BRICSMEDIA: Use media for nation building, transformation - Mokonyane

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The media is crucial to ensuring there is no information deficit between the haves and the have-nots, Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane told the #BRICSMEDIA ...

#BackChat session garners input from the youth

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SA’s economy was one of the main topics at Tuesday’s #BackChat session in Cape Town, where Deputy Minister in the Presidency Buti Manamela welcomed input from young ...