The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) is again challenging the South African media on their coverage of National Women’s Day. For the past six years, the MMP has monitored media coverage during the period around National Women’s Day. Last year’s challenge was won by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
My always reliable mole in high places has told me that South African Airways is about to introduce what is described as an ”unavoidable” 10% levy on all air tickets. This levy has become necessary in order to fund the lifestyle and management needs of SAA’s chief executive officer, Khaya Ngqula, and also to pay for all future enormous double-page SAA apologies in the Sunday newspapers.
Chevron paid Nigerian soldiers who guarded the company’s oil rigs after they allegedly attacked two villages in the African nation, according to company documents that have surfaced during a lawsuit against the energy firm. The invoice asks Chevron to pay 15Â 000 naira, about , to 23 soldiers who responded to ”attacks from Opia village against security agents”.
African leaders’ insistence at their summit on Thursday to drop demands for two permanent veto-wielding seats on an enlarged United Nations Security Council is a major setback for council aspirants Brazil, Germany, India and Japan, which had lobbied hard for African backing, diplomats said.
America Online said on Thursday it has bought the online storage company Xdrive to meet the growing needs of consumers with rapidly expanding collections of digital music, photos and other files. AOL did not disclose financial terms but said it would operate Xdrive as a wholly owned subsidiary and continue to sell storage and backup services through Xdrive.com.
CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he swore and walked off the set on Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville. The exchange during CNN’s Inside Edition came during a discussion of Florida’s Senate campaign.
Set in the mountainous Eastern Cape, the <i>Mountain of Lost Dreams</i> is a genuine tribute to the author’s homeland, writes Kalpana Rangan.
<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> News that Oasis were releasing a new album this year had to make one wonder whether it would just be a lukewarm attempt to recapture days of glory past, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
In the year that the Encounters documentary film festival coincides with Women’s Day, new works by top women filmmakers have been used to launch the event, writes Khubu Meth.
Poor Ismail Ayob. Even if he wins, he loses — because his opponent is Nelson Mandela. And so Mandela’s court case against his former lawyer Ayob, who he accuses of abusing his name for commercial purposes, is as good as decided, at least, in the public mind. As an attorney, Ayob depends on his professional reputation to stay afloat.