According to journalist and author Mandy Wiener, who has covered South Africa’s criminal underworld, Marc Batchelor may have made some dangerous enemies.
This Friday, Oscar will be released on parole – but what will the reactions of his fellow South Africans be? Mandy Wiener shares her thoughts…
The world isn’t exactly looking at South Africa through rose-coloured glasses at present, that much we know. Mandy Wiener says it might be worse than we think.
We called it. Mandy Wiener and Barry Bateman will write the Oscar Pistorius book. Well, one of the the Oscar Pistorius books, at least. EWN reporter, Barry Bateman rose to global prominence during the bail application hearing of Pistorius by live-tweeting the events as they unfolded in the court room. His Twitter following grew exponentially […]
Additional reporting by Gabi October The live tweeting of the Oscar Pistorius legal proceedings has announced a fundamental shift in the way that news is reported and consumed, and in the way in which we the audience relate to reporters. Magistrate Nair’s ban of video recording or photography while court is in session has left […]