By: Mike Cohen and Franz Wild | Bloomberg
South Africa’s government is lobbying media executives and using its advertising muscle to win its battle for a more supine press.
A management fight at Hosken Consolidated Investments Ltd. (HCI) revealed that a cabinet minister and a company director tried to influence coverage at its e.tv channel, the nation’s biggest private television station that has reported on corruption and graft allegations leveled against President Jacob Zuma.
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