Politics of the formal, Parliamentary kind, have never been big at the Suns.
We don’t even have a political correspondent.
But we’ve got lots of people reporting on “street politics”…the kind that hammers the lives of our readers directly…broken sewerage pipes, stolen electricity connections, fractured roads, bad local councillors. The dismal list is l-o-n-g.
And now there’s a [...]

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Apparently far from the grinding and the snapping and the snarling of daily newspaper wars, Sunday Sun serenely floats ahead…
No…sorry…”floats” is the wrong image.
I should have said: SPEEDS ahead!
Sunday Sun catches the mood of the Big Day Off in the townships better and better…
Our weekly baby boasts a latest ABC of close to 230 000 [...]

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GRAVEYARD SECRET!
MUM ON THE RUN
JOY AT R1 MILLION WIN

Front pages are – or should be – the big first throw of the daily fishing net.
They are – or should be – designed to draw in the maximum amount possible of readers in the target market.
The English Press giant, Lord Northcliffe, used to send his Bright [...]

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 It’s about as high-tech as I get.
Or got.
Like all sensitive 21st Century males, I can change…
I have most fundamentally changed with regard to so-called New Media.
In specific, I am becoming a fan of mobile technology.

Like all sensitive 21st Century males, I can change… I am becoming a fan of mobile technology….

That means, of course, entertaining [...]

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