In a quiz, which its purveyors sell as ”a quiz for people who know everything”, contestants are asked to name the one spectator sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Lo and behold, the answer is not local football.
As in politics, a week can be a long time on the football scene. Last Thursday the Premier Soccer League showcased its success as a brand by signing a multibillion-rand deal with pay-television channel SuperSport. Then the South African Football Association lost the man who had breathed hope into the almost comatose body of the association.
Ordinarily, it should be old hat that a business organisation, even if it is one of the best in its industry, is majority black-owned, as the Jupiter Drawing Room is. The agency’s press release Âwriters say it is "Africa’s largest, black-owned, independent advertising agency". What is less subjective is that last month Jupiter was voted the AdÂFocus Ad Agency of the Year.
One can understand why Bloemfontein was originally a popular choice for the Absa Cup final before Durban finally won the right to host the South African football season-ender. And the reason was not just because it is the most central city in the country.
For all the talk about a lack of skills in South Africa’s advertising industry, its man of the moment, Groovin Nchabeleng, may just have the answers. Nchabeleng, this year’s AdReview advertising person of the year, also comes in handy when another South African ill, the lack of entrepreneurship, is discussed.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers examine meaning and myth in Mmatshilo Motsei’s The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court
An impulsive buy in the 1980s helped vibemaster Ngwako Manamela find his vocation, writes <b>Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya</b>.
It was in the same week that my daughter’s preschool teacher suggested that we speak English to her at home that I met Ntate Koneshe and asked him how he was. He responded in Sesotho, as he always does, that "<i>mathatha antse a lekane matsoho</i>" — the problems are as big as our hands, to give it a rough English translation, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
”If ever anyone thought Orlando Pirates chairman Irvin Khoza was passing the buck when he explained his club’s poor run at the start of the season as a result of the cyclical nature of the game, the timing of Saturday’s fixture should vindicate him.” The outcome of the derby has huge implications for Chiefs, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
Author and women’s rights activist Mmatshilo Motsei launched her new book, The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court: Reflections on the Jacob Zuma Trial, this week. She spoke to the Mail & Guardian‘s Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya, about the book and the feminist movement in South Africa.