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.
Magazine publishers within the parenting and bridal niches are seeing a strong upward curve in circulations and revenue. Can the trend continue? Kim Novick looks into the superwomen sector.
I always am disturbed by people who seem to take pride in not knowing anything about computers. Especially if they use the things on a daily basis. That’s so passive and victim-like, it’s sick. The more you know, the less you need to be a passive, whiney, helpless consumer, at the mercy of evil geeks who will generally do their best to rip you off.
In his widely praised albeit controversial Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC, William Mervin Gumede argues that opposition parties in South Africa "have been caught embarrassingly off guard" by the "dramatic repositioning" of the African National Congress.
The conditions in Nurma Sulaiman’s tiny room in one of Nusa’s six barracks have just become a little more cramped. But neither she nor her husband and four children are complaining, because the cause of their discomfort is the arrival of a sewing machine. ”Twenty-eight of us have been given these,” she said.
Music pounds from a ghetto blaster underneath the makeshift stall where Mozambican national Simiao Chichava earns his living fixing radios and selling music cassettes. The setting for all this activity is Ivory Park — a low-income settlement north-east of Johannesburg.
As a cheese-eating, toyi-toying teenage ”activist”, I remember chanting ”Nonsexism! Nonracism!” And a third chant of ”Nonhomophobia”, which was a lot harder to get my tongue around, and even harder to argue to my sometimes socially conservative comrades.
Under the African Charter and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, patients are entitled to a reasonable standard of health care, safe practice, dignity and respect. Where is the evidence that these currently exist in South African government hospitals?
How does our press cover homosexual issues? Sandra Gordon delves into the archives and finds that despite our rainbow constitution old prejudices remain prevalent.
Australia’s media was accused of being ”ruthless” on Wednesday after a disgraced politician apparently tried to commit suicide over allegations of racism and sexism. But the publisher of one of the newspapers under fire hit back by revealing that the devastating stories about the politician came from within his own Liberal Party.