Thirty-five years since making history as the first black journalist to work at an Afrikaans newspaper, Conrad Sidego shares his experiences and assures prophets of doom that the <i>taal</i> is alive and well, writes Matebello Motloung.
Sandile Memela is no stranger to controversy. He speaks to Matebello Motloung about art, racism and Picasso.
Cellphone technology is changing rapidly, and the advances the industry makes in the coming months are going to have a significant effect on the way people experience television, writes Stuart Graham.
Designer Kenneth Cole has combined fashion, politics and celebrity to create a global public service campaign against HIV/Aids, writes Dion Chang.
The lucrative Afrikaans magazine market is launching new titles every year while old favourites continue to dominate. Fienie Grobler reports.
There was a time, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern noted to his public servants last year, when those who had an interest in policymaking would be given the same warning as people who like sausages — "don’t look too closely at how they are made". Happily, today’s policymakers are increasingly realising the importance of examining various ingredients of policymaking.
If a journalist can be a citizen, then surely, there is no logical reason why an ordinary citizen can’t be a journalist. Gus Silber, however, suggests we should resist the scourge of the "citizen journalist". After all, would you let a citizen surgeon operate on you?
Sport – especially the likes of rugby, cricket and soccer – continues to attract dollops of sponsorship cash, no matter how much the sports administrators dismay us or how badly our national teams do. Matebello Motloung reports.
Broadcasters in South Africa will have to find new income streams and other ways of selling audiences to advertisers as viewers migrate to the internet and the new media, writes Howard Thomas.
The British are spending more time online than watching television. Can South Africans ever match this trend, asks Matthew Buckland.