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/ 21 February 2006
Matthew Buckland recently returned from an online conference in Madrid, where talk of the medium’s "boom" dominated events. Those words have been used before, but now even Bill Gates is saying all media channels will soon be powered by the internet.
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/ 21 February 2006
With the printing industry always acting as an accurate barometer of the state of the economy, what is the outlook for print media’s production costs in 2006? Will paper prices increase? Kirsty Laschinger looks at the macroeconomic and market-based indicators.
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/ 21 February 2006
The date for municipal elections is looming, and still hardly any voters get media access to local government candidates. Professor Tawana Kupe suggests that opening the airwaves could go a long way towards addressing the protests on lack of service delivery.
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/ 21 February 2006
The fallout from a growing list of corruption scandals in Kenya is intensifying by the week as national and international outrage at the apparent rot at the heart of President Mwai Kibaki’s regime swells. Recently, education minister George Saitoti, Kibaki’s personal assistant Alfred Getonga and the president’s close ally Kiraitu Murungi exited the corridors of power.
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/ 21 February 2006
”It was President Mbeki’s decision to fire Jacob Zuma from office that shaped political developments in 2005, not, as has become the norm, the African National Congress’s annual January 8 statement. The statement, spiced with revolutionary slogans and seeking to rally ANC members to political battle, sets the political tone for the country,” writes Sipho Seepe.
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/ 21 February 2006
”Was Ashwin Desai banned or was his contract terminated by mutual agreement? Is this case about an attack on academic freedom or is it about the way the new university is governed? The reader would not know for the ‘debate’ on this matter has shed more heat than light,” writes the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s vice-chancellor, Malegapuru Makgoba.
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/ 20 February 2006
A man trying to walk the length of Britain wearing nothing but a hat, boots and a rucksack completed his marathon trek on Monday and celebrated by putting his clothes back. ”It’s nice to get warmed up again,” self-styled ”Naked Rambler” Stephen Gough (46) said.
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/ 20 February 2006
Indian health officials went door-to-door on Monday searching for people possibly sickened by the deadly H5N1 bird-flu virus, while hundreds of German troops disposed of dead chickens in a desperate attempt to contain the fast-moving disease. The European Union’s agriculture ministers met to discuss ways to combat bird flu.
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/ 20 February 2006
Full power will be restored to the Western Cape by Wednesday at the latest, Eskom said on Monday. Eskom chief executive Thulani Gcabashe gave this assurance during a meeting with the departments of minerals and energy and public enterprises to discuss the recent power outages.