Dispatch editor to meet NU13 residents this weekend

As the award-winning Daily Dispatch takes another Café Newsroom session to East Londoners this weekend, Mdantsane residents can look forward to sharing a cuppa at a new venue with editor Bongani Siqoko.

A first of its kind for Mdantsane residents, this Saturday’s Café Newsroom session will be hosted at the Mdantsane SuperSpar in Golden Highway near NU13.

This will give readers from Mdantsane a chance to enjoy a cuppa with Siqoko, who will be q joined by Metro Desk reporter Zipo-Zenkosi Ncokazi, while he listens to their stories. These may include grievances, gripes, concerns or positive issues.

Dispatch deputy editor Brett Horner will be at the East Coast Resorts’ Village Centre Crossways: at Blue Goose Café.

Siqoko said: “Reader engagement is one of the main challenges currently facing newspapers. Our coffee sessions are part of a broader reader engagement strategy. It is an effort we make to understand our readers better.”

Other Dispatch editors and reporters will be at the following venues between 9am and 11am:

Gonubie: Gonubie Hotel – chief reporter Mike Loewe and crime reporter Zwanga Mukhuthu;

Northend: Stadium clubhouse – sports editor Dominic Peel and photographic editor Alan Eason;

Beacon Bay: Pine Creek – news editor Cheri-Ann James and senior metro reporter Barbara Hollands;

Nahoon: Sprouts – metro news editor Andrew Stone and photographer Stephanie Norman; and

Vincent: Toast Deli – chief sub-editor Mike Chandler and metro reporter Zisanda Nkonkobe.