New paper hits streets

[caption id="attachment_39870" align="alignright" width="150"] TONY DUBA[/caption]

ANC regional deputy chairman and MPL Tony Duba has launched a new newspaper, The Messenger, in Port Elizabeth to get more voices out on the street.

Duba said he had been thinking about opening a paper for a while and this was the right time. The Messenger's first edition hit the streets last week.

"The Nelson Mandela Bay region is too big to just be serviced by a few newspapers. If you look at Gauteng, Bloemfontein and other areas, they have more than one English newspaper on the street."

The Messenger is a 12 page broadsheet which sells for R4.50.

"The paper will cover all the news from all sides because the one English broadsheet title in the city [The Herald] can only cover so much," Duba said. - Thulani Gqirana