Congratulations to the people's newspaper!
My journey with Sowetan began at the tender age of seven when I was working as a golf caddy and garden boy after school - I was exposed to your predecessor The World. Then, our neighbour would toss away the daily paper on his way back home at the bus stop.
As a means to educate myself and escape ignorance, I slowly began picking up the scattered pages and The World gave me a window of the world to the realities during apartheid. It was here that I learnt of the injustice of the apartheid system and my spark in business was ignited.
The Sowetan has since taken the baton and raised the bar even higher. The single most important role of a paper is to provide unfiltered, factual, unbiased, insightful and comprehensive news.
This responsibility of storytelling builds the very foundation that society rests on, using news reports as benchmarks to draw judgements on everyday occurrences.
It was on this very basis that the Sowetan was born as a single page news bulletin, providing a voice for the disenfranchised during the dehumanising apartheid days.
Sowetan has proven to be a resilient candle flame in the darkness of Africa as regardless of its national distribution, it's been able to touch the lives of those far and wide. Sowetan and its staff are not taking our democracy for granted.
Its exposés of corruption and criminal activities in our society is the protection of our hard earned Mandela RSA Constitution.
From the streets of Nelspruit to the shelves of boardrooms, airplanes and our electronic gadgets, Sowetan has indeed chiseled its name into the history books as a continent influencer. With the computer age, I daily access my Sowetan online wherever in the world I am. However, this never beats the satisfaction I get from reading my daily hard copy paper at 5am.
With our common love for education, Sowetan and my family Foundation have enjoyed the honor of creating family moments of pride and glee through publishing matric results for three years allowing families far and wide to share in their child's greatest moment.
This is something to be greatly proud of. Wishing you another decade of continued success.
May you continue to fly the African agenda and flag higher. Through Sowetan we know that none of us is, as good as all of us.
Sowetan ignited my interest in business: Robert Gumede
Congratulations to the people's newspaper!
My journey with Sowetan began at the tender age of seven when I was working as a golf caddy and garden boy after school - I was exposed to your predecessor The World. Then, our neighbour would toss away the daily paper on his way back home at the bus stop.
As a means to educate myself and escape ignorance, I slowly began picking up the scattered pages and The World gave me a window of the world to the realities during apartheid. It was here that I learnt of the injustice of the apartheid system and my spark in business was ignited.
The Sowetan has since taken the baton and raised the bar even higher. The single most important role of a paper is to provide unfiltered, factual, unbiased, insightful and comprehensive news.
This responsibility of storytelling builds the very foundation that society rests on, using news reports as benchmarks to draw judgements on everyday occurrences.
It was on this very basis that the Sowetan was born as a single page news bulletin, providing a voice for the disenfranchised during the dehumanising apartheid days.
Sowetan has proven to be a resilient candle flame in the darkness of Africa as regardless of its national distribution, it's been able to touch the lives of those far and wide. Sowetan and its staff are not taking our democracy for granted.
Its exposés of corruption and criminal activities in our society is the protection of our hard earned Mandela RSA Constitution.
From the streets of Nelspruit to the shelves of boardrooms, airplanes and our electronic gadgets, Sowetan has indeed chiseled its name into the history books as a continent influencer. With the computer age, I daily access my Sowetan online wherever in the world I am. However, this never beats the satisfaction I get from reading my daily hard copy paper at 5am.
With our common love for education, Sowetan and my family Foundation have enjoyed the honor of creating family moments of pride and glee through publishing matric results for three years allowing families far and wide to share in their child's greatest moment.
This is something to be greatly proud of. Wishing you another decade of continued success.
May you continue to fly the African agenda and flag higher. Through Sowetan we know that none of us is, as good as all of us.
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