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/ 21 September 2007
Athletes have become the first casualty of mining company Harmony’s drastic drive to cut its soaring costs. The company has decided to rid itself of about 40 star athletes on its payroll and invest in developing talent. Professional runners at Harmony earn between R500 and R14 000 a month, depending on experience.
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/ 14 September 2007
A lack of sponsorship and an insufficient number of clubs from coastal areas have set the football National First Division about four years back. Club officials this week reluctantly accepted a proposal by the Premier Soccer League to divide it into two different leagues, known as the Coastal and Inland Streams, thereby robbing it of its national identity.
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/ 14 September 2007
With just about 1 000 days to go to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, South African media fears about the commercialisation of the tournament and how it could hamper effective coverage of the event seem well-founded. Fifa marketing executive Sandile Ndzekeli refused to grant the Mail & Guardian the right to publish the images of three 2010 World Cup posters.
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/ 7 September 2007
It is 4.45pm at Meadowlands High School in Soweto. On the football field five different teams from around the area gather to prepare for their next league match. Two teams are using the partly grassed and already dusty field. On the sidelines there are about 20 players from Mighty Solutions FC.
With South Africa preparing to host the biggest football showpiece, the 2010 Fifa World Cup, negative talk about Africa abounds in the media. And it seems those who intend fighting the negativity are thin on ideas about how to go about achieving a positive image for the continent.
Organised media are relieved that they have been exempted from the blanket ban on the usage of words and phrases related to the 2010 World Cup, but organised black business is fuming over what it sees as an imposition of standards not suitable to a ”Third World” country.
When 19-year-old Thabang Moeketsane from Moletsane in Soweto joined the High Performance Centre, a sporting facility at the University of Pretoria, in 2003 his dream was to be part of the South African swimming squad to take part in the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.
M&G Media, which publishes the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> newspaper in Johannesburg, has been contracted by Mafube Publishing to take over its key management functions, it was announced on Monday. M&G Media will market and distribute all magazine titles published by Mafube — including <i>Enterprise</i> magazine — and assist with advertising sales.
M&G Media, which publishes the Mail & Guardian, on Thursday announced that it has expanded the portfolio of its magazine publications by acquiring ownership of two key titles from Traders Publications: Traders and the Health Care Journal. The effective date of the transaction is August 1 this year.
The Mail & Guardian will from next week be responsible for its own distribution, a key step in securing the newspaper’s independence, M&G chief operating officer Hoosain Karjieker said on Thursday. M&G Media, publisher of the M&G, has bought a stake in Central Media Distributors (Cape).