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 ...