This Day in trouble

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s newest daily newspaper, This Day, was not published yesterday in a row over a debt owed to its printer, staff said.

“The staff have been told the paper won’t come out tomorrow because Caxton have refused to print until they are paid their debt,” one editor at the newspaper said. “The chairman has promised that he was doing his best to raise the money and he was confident that the paper would be back again on Wednesday,” the editor said.There was no immediate comment from Caxton, a leading South African media company.This Day staff said they were not told how much money Caxton was owed.This Day’s chairman is Nigerian entrepreneur Nduka Onaigbena, who owns a daily newspaper by the same name in his home country.Senior This Day staff in South Africa said they had been told Onaigbena would head to South Africa from Nigeria on Tuesday to try to resolve the crisis.- Nampa-Reuters”The chairman has promised that he was doing his best to raise the money and he was confident that the paper would be back again on Wednesday,” the editor said.There was no immediate comment from Caxton, a leading South African media company.This Day staff said they were not told how much money Caxton was owed.This Day’s chairman is Nigerian entrepreneur Nduka Onaigbena, who owns a daily newspaper by the same name in his home country.Senior This Day staff in South Africa said they had been told Onaigbena would head to South Africa from Nigeria on Tuesday to try to resolve the crisis.- Nampa-Reuters