Media agencies are having a tough time trying to retain staff and transform, while still delivering quality service. But at the same time the industry has never been more interesting as new technologies emerge to provide ample opportunities for South Africa’s big spending advertisers. Stuart Graham reports.
It was inevitable. Long before the 2006 World Cup final, the Afro-pessimist brigade was already muttering dark warnings about 2010. Now comes the crescendo. We can almost feel the musty colonial breath in our faces, sputtering: "Crime! Disease! Civilisation! Give it to Australia!"
In an essay entitled The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual, Cornel West writes of black intellectuals: ”An intelligentsia without institutionalised critical consciousness is blind, and critical consciousness severed from collective insurgency is empty. The central task of … black intellectuals is to stimulate, hasten, and enable alternative perceptions.”
Christopher Nolan tells Andrew Pulver how his new film, Batman Begins, gets to the heart of the superhero.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Elephant is a compelling response, to the haunting question of what Columbine meant for a country in love with guns, writes Peter Bradshaw.
Standing in front of one of his company’s most coveted products, a curvaceous 1100cc Moto Guzzi Grizo, Piaggio chairperson Roberto Colaninno admits he has never actually ridden one. ”I’m too scared; I’d kill myself in five minutes,” he laughs.
Colaninno took control of Piaggio in 2003 and has since transformed it from an ailing icon into a profitable company.
Drive-time radio is the driving force behind most commercial radio stations, raking in 35-40% of a station’s revenue. Andy Davis tunes in to who’s attracting the listeners and where the ad spend is going.
Were Malcolm X alive, he’d be 80. Gay activist Peter Tatchell reveals the hidden past of the American black nationalist leader.
CD OF THE WEEK: Since Coldplay first shot to fame three years ago, other bands have been influenced by their sound Now they are back, but it’s all been done before — by others, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Janet Suzman’s Hamlet, performed in modern dress, is a victim of some archaic criticism, writes Brent Meersman.