"2010 was the year when local became global and when global became local. South Africa was in the international spotlight mostly for positive reasons (2010 World Cup), but also at times made negative headlines (Dewani honeymoon murder).
Some of the biggest stories of the year like the World Cup, the Public sector strikes, Herchelle Gibbs, WikiLeaks and the murder of Lolly Jackson didn’t make it onto News24’s Top 10 Most Read List, but only because we published so many stories on these topics.
Here are the Top 10 Most Read individual stories on News24 during 2010:
1. Julius Malema kicks out BBC journalist
A journalist at an ANC Youth League media briefing was called a "bastard" and an "agent" by its president Julius Malema. The media briefing was on the Youth League's visit to Zimbabwe.
2. AWB man causes chaos at TV studio
Pandemonium broke out at the e.tv studio when Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) secretary general André Visagie had a bitter confrontation with a political commentator.
3. Fiona Coyne dies in Cape Town
Fiona Coyne, presenter of the Weakest Link, has died. Coyne was also prominent in the theatre industry.
4. Bees 'was being blackmailed'
Blue Bulls prop Bees Roux may have become the victim of blackmail at the hands of metro police officers, after he spent a drunken evening at an infamous strip-club in Pretoria, it is being claimed.
5. Dewani wanted wife 'taken off the scene'
Shrien Dewani plotted his wife Anni's murder, the Western Cape High Court was told. The revelation was made by Western Cape Director of Public Prosecutions, Rodney de Kock, during plea agreement proceedings.
6. UFO stuns Pretoria residents
An unidentified flying object (UFO), which apparently consisted of three bright lights, astounded residents from Booysens in Pretoria for two consecutive nights for several hours.
7. Winter strikes with a vengeance
Winter has struck with a vengeance in the Western Cape with some towns recording their first snow falls in almost 20 years. Several mountain passes in the Southern Cape and the Eastern Cape had to be closed after heavy snowfalls.
8. 'My son killed Terre'Blanche'
The mother of a 15-year-old murder suspect has told the media that her son says he struck AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche with an iron rod after the farmer refused to pay him. "My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said from her two-room cement home in Tshing township, on the outskirts of Ventersdorp.
9. Horror video shocks parents
A video which shows children at a child care centre in Pretoria North allegedly being abused has led to a mass exodus from the school.
10. Twitter users laugh at Malema
Twitter users were in stitches on the social networking site following the news that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema wanted to close it down. Tweets kept rolling in by the minute, with international news websites such as BBC, also picking up on the story."
Some of the biggest stories of the year like the World Cup, the Public sector strikes, Herchelle Gibbs, WikiLeaks and the murder of Lolly Jackson didn’t make it onto News24’s Top 10 Most Read List, but only because we published so many stories on these topics.
Here are the Top 10 Most Read individual stories on News24 during 2010:
1. Julius Malema kicks out BBC journalist
A journalist at an ANC Youth League media briefing was called a "bastard" and an "agent" by its president Julius Malema. The media briefing was on the Youth League's visit to Zimbabwe.
2. AWB man causes chaos at TV studio
Pandemonium broke out at the e.tv studio when Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) secretary general André Visagie had a bitter confrontation with a political commentator.
3. Fiona Coyne dies in Cape Town
Fiona Coyne, presenter of the Weakest Link, has died. Coyne was also prominent in the theatre industry.
4. Bees 'was being blackmailed'
Blue Bulls prop Bees Roux may have become the victim of blackmail at the hands of metro police officers, after he spent a drunken evening at an infamous strip-club in Pretoria, it is being claimed.
5. Dewani wanted wife 'taken off the scene'
Shrien Dewani plotted his wife Anni's murder, the Western Cape High Court was told. The revelation was made by Western Cape Director of Public Prosecutions, Rodney de Kock, during plea agreement proceedings.
6. UFO stuns Pretoria residents
An unidentified flying object (UFO), which apparently consisted of three bright lights, astounded residents from Booysens in Pretoria for two consecutive nights for several hours.
7. Winter strikes with a vengeance
Winter has struck with a vengeance in the Western Cape with some towns recording their first snow falls in almost 20 years. Several mountain passes in the Southern Cape and the Eastern Cape had to be closed after heavy snowfalls.
8. 'My son killed Terre'Blanche'
The mother of a 15-year-old murder suspect has told the media that her son says he struck AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche with an iron rod after the farmer refused to pay him. "My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said from her two-room cement home in Tshing township, on the outskirts of Ventersdorp.
9. Horror video shocks parents
A video which shows children at a child care centre in Pretoria North allegedly being abused has led to a mass exodus from the school.
10. Twitter users laugh at Malema
Twitter users were in stitches on the social networking site following the news that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema wanted to close it down. Tweets kept rolling in by the minute, with international news websites such as BBC, also picking up on the story."
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