It doesn’t surprise David Bullard that he was passed over as an MC for the Mondi awards, ‘cos he’s always said what’s really needed is a writing award that encourages new talent rather than backslaps the same old names every year.
Following Barclays PLC’s recent announcement of its intention to acquire a controlling stake in the Absa Group for a reported R33-billion, it was announced in Johannesburg today that the Absa brand will not be replaced by the brand of its soon-to-be parent.
If it’s not the traffic or the advertising model, why is online experience a massive growth in revenues? Matthew Buckland finds some answers in a Standard Bank case study.
There is no end in sight to the consumer spending boom that has driven the economy for the past two years. Financial results released by food, clothing and furniture retailers recently show that, at best, we are in the middle of a phenomenon that will only be fully explained in hindsight.
At the beginning of the year, on national television’s <i>Special Assignment</i>, we saw Truman Prince, the Karoo’s most senior local civil servant, asking a girl walking on the roadside to "Show me your tongue". A few weeks later he was arrested on charges of riotous behaviour and assault and was charged with defamation for swearing at three fast-food stop workers.
After years in an economic slump, Durban and Pietermaritzburg are experiencing a return to prosperity. Kevin Bloom speaks to the media bosses in KwaZulu-Natal’s major cities about the impact of regional growth on their brands.
The uproar over Ethiopia’s hotly contested general elections last week and confusion and delays in releasing the results have sparked a massive boom for the country’s nascent independent press. The publishers of about 40 general-interest newspapers have reported a huge surge in circulation as Ethiopians clamour for information about the recent polls.
Western pundits have dominated the debate on United Nations reform, while African leaders have not focused attention on these crucial efforts. A group of civil society leaders from the continent tried to remedy this when we met in New York and thrashed out an African civil society response to the December 2004 report A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility.
The tightly sealed door between journalism and politics is breaking down in the US, causing discomfort amongst media commentators. Sean Jacobs wonders whether South Africa needs to look at its own revolving door policy.
The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, announced on Sunday night he wanted to bring forward the general election after a catastrophic poll defeat for his party in the country’s most populous state. He said he would seek to go to the polls in the autumn, although the next general election had not been due until late next year.