Most people have a bank account, but few understand the terminology banks use – and this can have a direct impact on your pocket. Paul Maggott, spokesperson for ICE, Old Mutual Bank’s young, urban market offering, says many commonly used banking terms are misunderstood, or not understood at all.
Hip-hop came to Libya last month, courtesy — improbably — of the British Council, introducing a novelty to a country hungry for contact with the West after its long isolation. This was light years away from the council’s fusty old image of Shakespeare and morris dancing, and a measure of just how much Moammar Gadaffi’s Jamahiriya — the world’s only “state of the masses” — is changing as it comes in from the cold.
Media24’s Africa CEO Douw Steyn, who recently acquired the rights to publish the <i>Idols</i> West Africa magazine, explains the difficulties and rewards of launching titles elsewhere on the continent.
South African broadcasting entered a new era in 1992 when the country’s first television talk show, The Felicia Mabuza-Suttle Show, premiered on SABC. However, 15 years later, local chat shows continue to be overshadowed by their more popular US counterparts in what must now be an old genre. Are the benchmarks set by the likes of The Oprah Winfrey Show too unattainable for local producers? Matebello Motloung finds out.
One would think that we would be invited to our funeral planning session, writes Ferial Haffajee. It is no overstatement to say that the Film and Publications Act amendment bill is a potential deathblow to media freedom.
The outdoor industry is expected make more than R1.5-billion in ad revenue from the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and BEE businessman Sandile Zungu is not planning on taking a back seat in this buoyant market. He recently purchased a controlling interest in Outdoor Network. Matebello Motloung and Tshepiso Seopa look at the man behind the billboards.
The newspaper industry has honoured media veteran Raymond Louw as a Lifetime Achiever at the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards. His name is synonymous with the right to press freedom and <i>The Media</i> thought it fitting to chat to him in May when we celebrate press freedom day.
The blogosphere is more than just a fad. It represents very real competition to traditional media publishers which includes online publishers, writes Matthew Buckland.
Lutz Schniewind, media planner at Universal McCann, explains how to use "word of mouse" to promote an African designer watch for the rich and famous.
Dutch police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men accused of drugging gay men at sex parties, raping them and injecting them with a cocktail of HIV-infected blood. "Two of the suspects have admitted to having injected at least five victims with HIV-infected blood," police spokesperson Sylvia Sanders told Dutch NOS public radio.