She is under 30 and already co-hosting one of the country’s most influential current affairs shows. Matebello Motloung chats to <i>AM Live</i> and <i>Interface</i> presenter Nikiwe Bikitsha.
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/ 27 September 2006
Ten years ago, women’s magazines carried content of a general nature and competition was confined to a handful of titles. However, the concept of niching has resulted in an explosion of new magazines and highly competitive marketing activity. Matebello Motloung investigates. <intro blurb ends>
The Press Ombudsman recently reprimanded the <i>Daily Voice</i> for its front-page pictures of the nude bodies of murdered actor Brett Goldin and fashion designer Richard Bloom. It begs the question: Are our tabloids getting trashier? Matebello Motloung asks their editors.
Sport – especially the likes of rugby, cricket and soccer – continues to attract dollops of sponsorship cash, no matter how much the sports administrators dismay us or how badly our national teams do. Matebello Motloung reports.
Thirty-five years since making history as the first black journalist to work at an Afrikaans newspaper, Conrad Sidego shares his experiences and assures prophets of doom that the <i>taal</i> is alive and well, writes Matebello Motloung.
Is it true that black faces on magazine covers hinder sales? Matebello Motloung finds out.
KwaZulu-Natal media have started to take its Zulu-speaking audience seriously, as it realises where the new spending power lies. Matebello Motloung reports.
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/ 22 December 2005
It was a tearful reunion at the Johannesburg International airport on Wednesday night as two South African air-crew members held captive in Equatorial Guinea for more than a month were reunited with their family and friends. The two had been held in the country since November 17 as pawns in a commercial dispute.
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/ 21 December 2005
Gunmen on Tuesday shot out the windows of a jewellery store at the Menlyn Park shopping centre in Pretoria in order to steal the merchandise. According to a witness, robbers fired several shots just after 8pm at Arthur Kaplan’s, shattering the windows. Shoppers ran for cover at nearby restaurants at the sound of the shots.
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/ 30 November 2005
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Nearly half of South Africans aged 15 and older find nothing wrong with marrying an HIV-positive person and would not have a problem having sex with them. This is according to the Second South African HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communications Survey released on Wednesday, on the eve of World Aids Day.