Striking medical interns in Zimbabwe have defied a directive to return to work while their grievances are being examined, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. Junior doctors had vowed to return only if authorities met their demands that included a 700% pay increase.
Western leaders remained paralysed on Monday as Lebanon suffered one of its bloodiest days since Israel began its bombardment a week ago. For the second time in 48 hours Western governments declined to intervene as Israeli forces, on the sixth day of aerial attacks, killed 47 people and wounded at least 53.
The Web need not be a suffocating overdose of information, Buff Thokoa discovered when he went on the hunt for media innovation. He tells us all about lonely fingers, online adventures and citizen journalism.
Definition: A Universal South African greeting understood by all, including Harry Herber.
Matthew Buckland tells us why media bosses should ditch their internet paranoia and start cashing in.
<intro blurb> Oscar winning movies Capote and Brokeback Mountain began as stories in <i>The New Yorker</i>. Local editors and brand managers would do well to look at what has made – and kept – this magazine an icon in publishing and an enduring international brand, writes Thomas Oosthuizen. <intro blurb ends>
Howard Thomas mulls the future of cellphone cinema.
In an edited extract from <i>The World in an Orange</i>, Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman recalls Barney Simon’s production of <i>Death and the Maiden.
The new edition of Chimurenga magazine explores ‘Nigerianness’, which is described as ‘an overriding descriptor of black people in the negative’. Kwanele Sosibo speaks to the Magazine’s editor, Ntone Edjabe.
The real results of the eKapa sessions will only be experienced at the Cape Biennial of 2006, writes Kim Gurney.