In light of the recent successes in South African sport, sponsorship is reaching new heights, reports Simon Segal South African sport has rapidly become a mega- business. With the success of the national rugby, soccer and cricket teams and the advent of 24-hour international television sports channels, local sport has caught up with world trends. […]
Ricardo Dunn Every Thursday from 8:30 to 9:30pm, the airwaves of Western Cape’s Bush radio 89.5 fm are tickled pink with an hour of gay programming. Africa’s only “queer” radio programme is a serious exercise in “camp” dialogue and commitment to positive images of gay people. In the Pink, a programme produced by and for […]
Anton Grutter ‘Best practice” is aimed at involving workers in problem-solving on the shopfloor. And judging by the reaction to the first workshops organised by the Manufacturing Roundtable at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, the concept is popular with workers and management alike. Many studies have shown that team-based problem-solving can […]
The latest person tipped as editor of the Sunday Independent is the Star’s political editor Kaizer Nyatsumba. Nyatsumba is one of many names being bandied about to fill the shoes of Shaun Johnson, who has been appointed editor of the Argus in Cape Town. Johnson replaces the Argus’s longtime editor, Andrew Drysdale, in a couple […]
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser ANOTHER stunning French pianist, another enterprising programme, another accomplished conductor, another triumph. Cecile Ousset first visited South Africa long before she became a household name in countries like Britain. Here for the first time in many years, with the National Symphony Orchestra, she gave a performance of Saint- Saens’s second piano […]
While the government considers more equitable ways of aiding the film industry, Justin Pearce reports that a single producer scooped more than half the subsidy money in recent years Films, including Oh Schucks, it’s Schuster and There’s a Zulu on my Stoep, earned more than R20-million in government subsidies for film production giant, Toron, over […]
Jacquie Golding-Duffy There was a 3% drop in adult viewers of television during the week following the SABC’s relaunch, although there was a percentage hike at two of the new-look channels. The week prior to the launch, 80% of adults in all language groups watched SABC and M-Net, while the week after the launch, 77% […]
Finishing 30th in a world championship event may not sound like much, but for young South African Alexander Heath it is a sign of future greatness, writes Julian Drew A FEW years ago Italian ski legend Alberto Tomba declared himself “the messiah of skiing”. In the Sierra Nevada mountains of Andalusia last week he lived […]
The Budget must set the stage for investment growth if Thabo Mbeki’s ambitious employment plan is to succeed, writes Madeleine Wackernagel Thabo Mbeki’s ambitious blueprint for economic growth and job creation brings into sharp focus the need for the “right” Budget on March 13. Without the building blocks to encourage foreign and local investment, the […]
Carlo Gibson’s art is interactive — so why, asks HAZEL FRIEDMAN, isn’t the viewer allowed to participate? ACCESSING Carlo Gibson’s realm means entering a land where the literal and the obtuse sometimes meet in a muddled embrace. His first solo show — at the Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, at the Market in Newtown — promises […]