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/ 26 January 2005
Investigative journalism is essential if we are to preserve democratic values. Left to their own devices politicians will get up to all sorts of skullduggery and it’s up to honest hacks to catch them out and make them pay for their misdemeanors. Or so we are told. The greater truth is that investigative journalism is much better for newspaper sales than it is for upholding democracy.
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/ 26 January 2005
There is an audible buzz among online publishers and agencies about the renewed interest in the medium these days. And, to back it up, the figures appear to be looking healthy. Matthew Buckland explains why the local and international online sectors have good reason to be upbeat.
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/ 25 January 2005
Anti-retrovirals could cost South Africans as little as about R100 a month and local manufacturing of generics could start as early as next month, it was announced on Tuesday. South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare group is the first drug manufacturer in the world to receive approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to produce generic anti-retrovirals.
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/ 25 January 2005
Members of a heavily armed Somali gang occupying a desecrated colonial-era Italian cemetery in Mogadishu said on Tuesday they will build a mosque at the site. Gunmen exhumed the remains of hundreds of Italian nationals nearly 50 years ago and discarded them into trash-dumping zones along the shores of the Indian Ocean.
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/ 25 January 2005
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday that Burundi’s neighbours are opposed to any changes in the country’s Constitution that is to be put to a referendum next month. Zuma said the countries of the region do not support President Domitien Ndayizeye’s controversial proposal to modify the Constitution.
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/ 25 January 2005
Kaizer Chiefs’ player of the year and former Bafana Bafana midfielder John ”Shoes” Moshoeu was on Tuesday suspended by the club with immediate effect. Moshoeu was also instructed by coach Ted Dumitru not to come to training, pending his appearance before the club’s disciplinary committee. A hearing date is still to be confirmed.
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/ 25 January 2005
Pretoria advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday to an array of criminal charges involving alleged sexual violations of women and girls. The pair, who was arrested more than two years ago, gave detailed denials of all the allegations against them.
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/ 25 January 2005
Yesterday, South African filmmaker Darrell Roodt’s touching film about a young woman, played by Leleti Khumalo, coming to terms with Aids, has been nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, it was announced on Tuesday. The Howard Hughes epic The Aviator leads the contenders with 11 nominations.
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/ 25 January 2005
Local publishers called on Tuesday for a range of government action to help make textbooks and other learning materials affordable, even to the poor. The publishers were responding to criticism from civil society organisations that publishing companies are profit-driven and do little to promote free access to information.