http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2007/09/07/pahad-government-should-pull-ads-from-sunday-times en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <p>Following the Sunday Times/Manto fight, Minister in the Presidency (and head of <acronym title="Government Communication and Information System">GCIS</acronym>) Essop Pahad has said that <a href="http://mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=318579&#38;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/">government should pull it&#8217;s advertisements</a> from the Sunday Times.</p> <p>This can&#8217;t happen soon enough. It always irks me to open up the Sunday Times only to see the Limpopo Dept of Education using their budget to buy half page ads commemorating the Premier&#8217;s birthday instead of using that <span class="caps">R50 000</span> (or whatever the going rate is) to I don&#8217;t know&#8230; buy books? Employ a teacher perhaps?</p> Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:49:00 -0500 urn:uuid:61a8b801-fce2-484a-99e6-9240dfc3c126 Farrel http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2007/09/07/pahad-government-should-pull-ads-from-sunday-times The Presidency The Media