Henry Jeffreys is New Age editor

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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/New-Age-appoints-Henry-Jeffreys-as-editor-20101028

Cape Town - Henry Jeffreys, former editor of Afrikaans daily Die Burger, will take the helm of the New Age newspaper, managing editor Gary Naidoo announced on Thursday.

"I believe The New Age does have a unique and independent view to offer daily newspaper readers and I'm excited about joining the paper," Jeffreys said on Thursday after he was named editor.

"The editorial team at TNA is eager to forge ahead and I'm pleased to be an integral member of this new venture."

The launch of The New Age was delayed last week after five senior staff members, including editor-in-chief Vuyo Mvoko and deputy editor Karima Brown, resigned a day before the first edition was due to hit the streets.

The new daily, owned by TNA Media, was initially scheduled to launch in mid-September.

The newspaper would be published by Bennett Colemen & Co LTD which publishes the world's largest English newspaper, The Times of India, and funded by the Gupta Group, which has close links to the ANC.

Jeffreys said: "The New Age is bound to unlock new audiences, giving consumers a new and fresh voice to consider thereby promoting the much needed diversification of the media market. It will also enrich the public discourse."

He is a former deputy and political editor of the Johannesburg daily Beeld, where he started his career in the 1980's.
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Good heavens. I expected more of him.
 
Looking at what happened to the NATs and this story makes me think that money makes Afrikaners go crazy .
 
BLIXEMPIE said:
New Age will fail. There is just no market for a new newspaper in an era when most of us get our news via digital sources.
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The New Age has a website, like most other newspapers.

arni1954 said:
Looking at what happened to the NATs and this story makes me think that money makes Afrikaners go crazy .
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What are you on about? What has "Afriikaners" (whatever that is) to do with this newspaper?
 
blunomore said:
What are you on about? What has "Afriikaners" (whatever that is) to do with this newspaper?
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The new editor is ex-editor of Die Burger and Beeld. But he's a coloured "Afrikaner" so I'm not sure if that counts. Basically the NP and now ex-editors of Afrikaans newspapers will move over to the ANC for money.
 
Alestorm said:
The new editor is ex-editor of Die Burger and Beeld. But he's a coloured "Afrikaner" so I'm not sure if that counts. Basically the NP and now ex-editors of Afrikaans newspapers will move over to the ANC for money.
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If someone can be bought, it says more about him as individual than the ethnic group he comes from.
 
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