Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending. Bored and jobless, the 22-year-old approached the tour guides and asked: ”Can you please share your guests with us?”
Zimbabwe’s government will table a proposal in Parliament on Wednesday to give majority control of foreign-owned firms to locals. The new parliamentary session will also debate a Bill giving President Robert Mugabe room to pick a successor if he retires. If passed, the Bills could tighten Mugabe’s grip on power.
Neither food nor food supplements are alternatives to drug therapy in treating people with HIV/Aids, South Africa’s top scientific advisory panel said on Tuesday, amid a controversy over the nation’s Aids policies. The report by the Academy of Science of South Africa was issued as President Thabo Mbeki faced new criticism over support for his health minister.
Publishing allegations of alcohol and power abuses by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang formed part of a national debate, the Sunday Times contended on Tuesday. ”There is a debate in South Africa … as to whether or not the first applicant is a fit occupant of the high office she holds,” the paper says in an affidavit.
A Japanese game maker said on Wednesday it would withdraw arm-wrestling machines from arcades after three players — two of them foreigners — broke their arms. Players would choose a strength level from 10 characters, ranging from a maid to a professional wrestler, and face off with an artificial arm on the other side of the table.
Once the ugly duckling of the magazine industry, custom publishing has given itself a make-over to become a more competitive – and prettier – player. Fienie Grobler tracks the growth of the local industry against international trends.
A self-proclaimed communist who became an idol of the opposition, the "bourgeois" media and global capital institutions, has ended up in conflict with the government she represented. This is how one can sum up the three-year period of Nozizwe ÂMadlala-Routledge as the deputy minister of health, which ended last week, writes Sibani Mngadi.
Local media planners wary of online advertising should consider emigrating to Afghanistan where the pace of technology will be slow enough for them, writes Matthew Buckland.
Some big-name media professionals have recently taken to blogging. Matthew Buckland reports.
Tabloid journalists often complain that journalism awards discriminate against their genre. But perhaps the industry is justified in doing so, argues Matebello Motloung.