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.
Three new radio stations will soon enter the playing fields in North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. They will be the first commercial stations taking on the radio market outside Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Town. Fienie Grobler considers their chances of survival.
Fred Khumalo reminisces about the good old days of typewriters and wonders he should bow to pressure to start his own blog. <
A well-known research company is contemplating a study that looks into the similarities between blacks and Afrikaners, which are many, according to Matebello Motloung. She touches on some she’s picked up over the years.
Several radio stations have given their drive-time shows a shake-up as the national average of time spent listening to radio drops. Matebello Motloung reports.
Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha confirmed on Wednesday that he had handed over a R500 000 donation to South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande. ”I am willing to go to the courts to prove that indeed this did happen,” Madisha said.
Since she was sacked, former deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has received unprecedented support. This reflects respect for her work in the health portfolio and serious concern about the manner in which the president exercised executive power when he fired her, writes Fatima Hassan and Mark Heywood.
Financial markets the world over are once again in turmoil. The successive international financial crises of the 1990s, and of 2001, demonstrated that we live in an age of volatility. These events prompted emerging market economies to work hard to improve their national balance sheets by adjusting their fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies, and to promote economic diversification, writes Lesetja Kganyago.
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At the very moment when it should be offering a different approach to politics, the SACP has got itself into a right pickle on the money front. With Thabo Mbeki doing his very best King Lear impression — minus the truculent daughters, but replete with one-eyed errors of judgement — SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande is no less on the back foot.