LANCE BENSON: The curtain comes down on another tumultuous and testing year. While much has changed, one wonders if we really are any better off than we were twelve months.
Theuns Botha writes: “In the on-going argument/debate between David Thiselton (Tote) and Tony Mincione and Basil Thomas (Bookmakers), may I ask …
When one finds oneself having a difference of opinion, it is rather important to try and avoid such disagreement becoming personal. Basil Thomas hopes that he can manage to do that – as he certainly has no desire to demean or disrespect Mr Thiselton personally. The dilemma that he faces is that he views his response as so clearly a load of hogwash that it simply cannot go unanswered.
David Thisleton responds to Basil Thomas’ “Fair Play?”, which was a comment on an original newspaper article by Thistleton.
Where democratic South Africans are actively campaigning against the Protection of Information Bill and standing squarely alongside our journalists in their quest to tell the truth and to be allowed to deliver balanced news, I can only say “shame on you Mr Thiselton, shame on you Gold Circle and shame on The Mercury”.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
