NEWSWATCH: The Gupta Group, which is allegedly already closely aligned with the ANC and Jacob Zuma, and bankrolls Essop Pahad's The Thinker magazine, is now reported to be funding a new daily newspaper, The New Age, which will be 'ANC-sympathetic', according to Business Day.
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Business Day: Gupta Group to fund 'ANC-sympathetic' newspaper... The new publication, which is apparently due to begin publishing in September, will not be 'affiliated to the ANC', according to Essop Pahad. Some people will say, however, that there's a pretty fair guess that it's quite possible that much of the government's recruiting advertising - and other government and parastatal advertising - is likely to be going to the new publication.
