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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Going Mobile, the latest in the Hitchhiker series by South African communications expert Arthur Goldstuck, aims to help its readers choose a mobile device and — more importantly — how to get the most out of it.
About one million people in need of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment are yet to receive it in four Southern African states, according to Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), the global NGO specialising in medical services. On the African continent, about 70% of people who need ARVs do not have access to the drugs.
Adam Haupt’s contribution to the discussion about affirmative action (”We dare not erase ‘race’ from debate”, May 11) is riddled with the sorts of egregious errors that have characterised so many responses to my lecture. First, he assumes that my arguments against racial-preference affirmative action must be a product of my ”race” or of some associated insensitivity, writes David Benatar.
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High Court papers have been served on President Thabo Mbeki and Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla calling on them to respond in the matter of considering applications for a presidential pardon for 384 prisoners, Inkatha Freedom Party chief whip Koos van der Merwe told MPs on Tuesday.
Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped five Britons from a government building in Baghdad on Tuesday and the deaths of 10 United States soldiers were announced, making May the deadliest month this year for the US military. The gunmen seized the Britons from a Finance Ministry building in eastern Baghdad.