This writer never met late photojournalist Anton Hammerl, slain in Libya on 5 April. What is abundantly clear though, is that he was a kind-hearted man who formed strong, lasting friendships. Now his friends around the world have banded together to set up “Friends of Anton”, an online campaign to raise money for his children's education. By THERESA MALLINSON.

How times have changed for Julian Assange. The man once feted as a hero and a game-changer is now facing the music from commentators who are increasingly fed up with his publicity-seeking antics. By REBECCA DAVIS.

At a meeting with the SOS Coalition on Friday, the minister of communications announced that a broadcasting policy review will be launched. With the SABC lurching from crisis to crisis over the last few years, it's about time something is done to fix our public broadcaster. By THERESA MALLINSON.

When Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in the tumultuous, untrusting times of 1993, what did they say to each other? Their conversation over dinner the night before must have been fraught with undercurrents and tensions. By LESLEY STONES.

There is a new twist in the WikiLeaks saga. It turns out the entire, unredacted cache of US embassy cables has been available online for a while, albeit in an encrypted form. Thanks to The Guardian newspaper, the password too has been available since February. Few, however, had made the connection. Until now. By OSIAME MOLEFE.

It’s the Right2Know campaign's first birthday, but there's little time to celebrate. While the organisation has had an action-packed year and achieved no small gains, the real battle (yes, that would be fighting the secrecy bill) continues. By THERESA MALLINSON.

Monday's colloquium was a space for academics to present their media research to their peers. But it also provided an overview of the various relationships between academics, journalists, and civil society organisations active in the media space over the last few years; a stock-taking of what has been achieved, and what still needs to be done to move our media forward. By THERESA MALLINSON.

If you're a journalist imprisoned in Sudan, President Omar Hassan Al Bashir's pardon will be most welcome news. Sadly though, this doesn't mean it's going to be easy to practice your profession once you're back on your beat. By THERESA MALLINSON.

iMaverick/Daily Maverick can exclusively reveal that this week’s Sunday Times’ “Facebook racist” photograph is not an exclusive – it was exclusively revealed by 702’s Eyewitness News in May 2008.  And then exclusively revealed by the Mail & Guardian in October 2008. Oh, and also by Beeld the same month. Actually, we can’t even reveal it exclusively – it was all over Twitter yesterday, prompting legions of new tweets and retweets. By now we can assume it’s all over the world. By CHRIS VICK.

“My whites work for me.” That’s one of the many risqué lines Surf used in a brave ad campaign that recently saturated the Daily Sun, and poked fun at the medium and SA’s racial divide. But when a cringe-worthy release from Surf’s agency JWT started appearing on local news sites, Unilever was not amused. After carrying the story for a few days, a couple of news sites hit delete when JWT asked them to expunge all record of the story. By MANDY DE WAAL.

How do you make ads which become a viral sensation, like Vodacom’s “Single Lady”?  Ola Films director Amy Allais has had more than a couple of hits, and says it’s all about respecting that people need to be entertained, not bored to death with mindless branded pack shots. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Shut your eyes and you’d think it’s really them. In fact, open your eyes and you still think it’s them, because who really remembers what Pink Floyd actually looked like back then? It was always about the music and the experience - what it made you feel! By LESLEY STONES.

Wikipedia needs women. Anyone can edit the crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, but recent research suggests that less than 15% of extant editors are female. By REBECCA DAVIS.

The Press Council report into media regulation in South Africa has come out strongly in favour of continued self-regulation, with a few tweaks here and there. Whether this is enough to finally and completely dissuade the ruling party from looking into setting up a media appeals tribunal is arguable. By THERESA MALLINSON.

It's been a bad week for the Murdochs and News Corp. James Desborough, News of the World's US editor, has been arrested in London on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications. By REBECCA DAVIS.

Like history itself, Alan Bennett’s play “The History Boys” could prove timeless. A witty script that pitches surly teenage boys against erudite, if unhip, teachers will always be a delight to watch, and the cast accrued for this production draws from South Africa’s finest. By LESLEY STONES.

As “The Big Lebowski” is re-released on Blu-Ray DVD and the cast reunites to entertain fans, The Dude's religion of slackerdom shows no sign of slacking off. By THERESA MALLINSON.

Thousands of readers salivated indignantly over the Sowetan’s recent shocking but salacious front page, featuring a man and woman in correctional services and police uniforms –in a rather compromising position. CARIEN DU PLESSIS asked newly-appointed editor Mpumelelo Mkhabela why.

Google on Monday announced the transmutation of around a third of its enormous pile of cash into a doomsday weapon to use in the fierce patent battle raging between Apple, Microsoft and Google's Android in the smartphone market. It also happened to buy the entire Motorola consumer business, the part that makes all its cellphones, tablets and set-top boxes. Not that anybody cares about such minor details. By PHILLIP DE WET.

Thousands of Capetonians are expected to take to the streets of the CBD this Saturday to participate in the city’s ‘SlutWalk’, the first South African incarnation of a movement which has spread from Toronto to over 50 cities around the world. A SlutWalk is on its way to Johannesburg too, on 24th September. But the event is not without its critics – particularly those who say that the concept cannot translate meaningfully to a South African context. By REBECCA DAVIS.

The Elvis Week commemorations held at Graceland this week seem far from graceful as Elvis impersonators – and Elvis Presley Enterprises – jostle for your attention, and money. By THERESA MALLINSON.

Iconic jeans company Levi's couldn't have chosen a worse time to launch its latest advertising campaign in the UK than last Tuesday. By REBECCA DAVIS.

Nelson Mandela is such an icon that not fully endorsing anything connected to him feels like an act of treason. How then, do you review a musical tribute to his life without being sycophantically nice in reverence, or lynched for daring to point out weaknesses?  By LESLEY STONES.

BlackBerry smartphone maker, RIM, might be forced to open its records on the BBMing of London – now known as “the BlackBerry Riots” – after its direct messaging service was widely used to fuel riots and lootings in the UK. Could the smartphone replace the AK47 as the icon of modern revolution?  By REBECCA DAVIS.

In the midst of freefalling markets, Apple was briefly the most valuable company in the world, then it was overtaken by Exxon Mobil again. Still, it will come as delicious news to Steve Jobs and his entire team. Just over a decade ago, the company was being maligned. Today, they own everything worth owning in the tech space. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.

America's most-recognisable symbol of liberty isn't quite up to scratch when it comes to complying with that country's latest fire codes. For the year or so it'll take to complete the required renovations, visitors will have to content themselves with looking upon the Statue of Liberty, rather than ascending to the crown of freedom. By THERESA MALLINSON.

Singer-songwriter Bongeziwe Mabandla's Afro-folk sound is starting to attract international attention – he's one of ten finalists in the Radio France Internationale Discoveries Awards. And with his debut album, “Umlilo” (fire), due to be released in September, home fans have something to look forward to as well. By THERESA MALLINSON.

This week Mark Zuckerberg’s little social marketing project launched a mobile app set to give SMS a swift kick in the pants. In reaction local mobile network operators yawned, saying they’ve seen and heard it all before. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, has broken his self-imposed silence on all matters political. He did it on Twitter - the social media site his bail conditions explicitly forbid him from accessing. By KHADIJA PATEL.