A new organisation called X-heid has been launched at the University of the Witwatersrand to initiate dialogue about transformation. But it has already stirred controversy on campus, with "offensive" X-heid posters having being pulled. One poster depicted a man urinating and was captioned "release it, speak out".
What the world needs now is not another love song, but more consumption by Asia. That is one of many lessons one gleans from listening to Professor Brian Kantor, head of investment strategy at Investec Securities, whose lecture sounds like the musings of a maverick and a maestro rolled into one.
To coincide with National Woman’s Day, <i>The Media</i> magazine once again celebrates the remarkable individuals chosen as South African media’s most influential women. In 2005, as in previous years, each woman listed has made an outstanding contribution to the development of the media industry in an economic, political, social or cultural sense, and each has therefore easily fulfilled the criteria for inclusion.
Professor Tawana Kupe argues that Jacob Zuma’s cries of "trial by media" are misinformed. The media works on the presumption of reasonable suspicion, not on the legal presumption that one is innocent until proven guilty.
It means "quick" or "informal" in Hawaiian. Matthew Buckland explains the latest form of web-based "open content", which has net wizards in a spin.
The predominance of a male-orientated editorial focus in South African media is not only biased, it violates the highest laws in the land. Toni Erling takes issue.
If women didn’t dominate the media environment, we’d have shows like <i>Desperate Househusbands </i>and <i>Show me the Daddy</i>. Harry Herber explains why South Africa mirrors the global trend.
US TV news has a fondness for covering the disappearances of white women, the more attractive and middle-class the better. Sean Jacobs asks what this says about coverage of women in general.
Julie Kelly and Nicky Troll were finalists at this year’s CNN/Multichoice African Journalist awards for a hard-hitting television exposé on stolen police dockets. Their other stories have been equally formidable, one bringing on a serious physical assault by a gang of displeased thugs. Kevin Bloom speaks to two unbending journalists.
Where should long-past-it journos go to live out their twilight years? David Bullard suggests the Hunter S Thompson Memorial Home, where volunteer carers write fan letters to the columnists and phone in to the mock radio station.