Maverick Magazine Kaput - Empire Goes Down Too

There are many in the industry who do not like Brkic - the majority of whom are simply jealous. He is a maverick in every sense of the word, an idealist in the extreme, and a very canny newsman and writer. It would a pity for the industry to lose this sort of talent. By: Chris Moerdyk

NVDL: I remeber reading in a Maverick mag (lots of pretty pages)I on a flight somewhere, that they were saying Climate Chnage was a hoax and not to worry about oil prices. Maverick thinking perhaps - but fundamentally flawed.

clipped from www.bizcommunity.com BREAKING NEWS: One of South Africa's most innovative and entertaining business magazines, Maverick, along with its media industry sibling, Empire, are no more. Speaking to Bizcommunity.com last night, Monday, 13 October 2008, publisher and editor Branko Brkic said that in spite of battling for months to keep the two magazines going, shareholder disagreements and unworkable alliances with incompatible media bed-fellows left Mvela-owned Business Century Publishing with no alternative but to shut them down. And, contrary to rumour, Brkic said he had not left the country. This closure has been a bitter blow not only for Brkic, but for his co-editors, Phillip de Wet and Kevin Bloom - both extremely talented investigative journalists who, with Brkic, brought a refreshing breath of fresh air to the country's business publishing industry.