The obsession with reality television is not new – it taps into voyeuristic viewing habits that stretch back to 1948, with the first flighting of <i>Candid Camera</i>. Kim Novick explores the evolution of the phenomenon with SA’s content bosses.
Moeletsi Mbeki has a strong background in journalism, with a resume that includes a Nieman Fellowship and time at the BBC. He was a media consultant for the ANC in the ’90s, and is currently the chairman of Endemol South Africa. Kevin Bloom gets the views of the president’s brother on the politics and economics of local media.
Recent events surrounding the Oilgate saga have brought the role of the public protector into stark focus. What exactly is his mandate? Greg Hamburger explains.
Some think it’s of little consequence, but Harry Herber comments on technology that he feels is about to change media and advertising as we know it. What will the introduction of the PVR do to the TV revenue model?
South Africa is sorely missing a real journal of opinion, of the ilk of the US’s <i>The Nation</i>. Sean Jacobs looks at the lessons held in the memoirs of <i>The Nation</i>’s publisher, Victor Navasky.
David Bullard argues that, just like the era of the niche bank, the era of the niche magazine will be a short one. Is there a similar smell to the hype?
How do the media budgets of South Africa’s big four banks rate in comparison to their market share? Kirsty Laschinger looks at the figures and speaks to the banks’ marketing executives about strategy.
Auditor General Shauket Fakie has called for documents that deal with the government’s financial arrangements with Sasol. The fuel-from-coal giant, on which taxpayer support was lavished in the past, has been at the centre of controversy as oil prices have jumped dramatically in recent months and continued to trade at these much higher levels.
Absa has introduced a new home-loan product that makes it possible for almost anyone to own a home of their own. MyHome gives individuals or couples with joint monthly incomes of between R1Â 500 and and R7Â 500 access to an affordable 100% mortgage bond that can also include a five-year fixed-rate option.
As far as I can remember from second and third-hand conversations here and there there’s a very famous bit in the Bible where it say that this fellow Jesus came upon a group of poverty-stricken-looking guys with shabby clothes and ragged beards looking lost and forlorn by the Sea of Galilee.