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/ 15 December 2004
The southern Lesotho village of Malealea is alive with activity. A party of tourists is about to ride out on an afternoon excursion, and their doughty Basotho ponies are being saddled and prepped. Others are going on a village walk, and their guides are being introduced. <i>Escape</i> explores a lodge at the gateway to Lesotho’s Maluti mountains that sets standards in responsible tourism and exotic outdoor adventure.
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/ 15 December 2004
"So, what’s the catch?" asked a friend when I told her about Ilha Grande, a beautiful island just off Brazil’s Costa Verde (Green Coast). She had a point. Blessed with jungly hills, 106 sandy beaches, blue lagoons and bays teeming with tropical fish, it’s the sort of place you assume must be prohibitively expensive or impossible to get to. But you’d be wrong.
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/ 15 December 2004
Music is the second religion in Cuba and in the capital it’s laid on thick for the tourists; from the tacky <i>Tropicana</i> — one of the world’s most famous cabarets — to the quartets strumming Buena Vista classics and <i>Guantanamera</i> in every bar and restaurant. Gavin Owen finds himself a willing convert.
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/ 15 December 2004
A Zimbabwean commuter will spend Christmas in jail for calling President Robert Mugabe "thick-headed", the <i>Herald</i> newspaper reported on Wednesday. Arnold Bunya (29) was arrested on December 1 after an argument with his brother on a bus during which he admonished his sibling by saying: "Do not be thick-headed like Mugabe."
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/ 15 December 2004
For the last twenty years television network news in the United States (US) has been dominated by three well-paid, white males. Each of whom, have developed unparalleled levels of trust and visibility amongst the American TV-watching public. But the US could now be witnessing the end of the network television news anchor.
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/ 15 December 2004
Is local TV content’s bad rap simply a function of broader SA-bashing? Do we love or hate local TV shows? Do they excite us wildly, and stack up against the overseas offerings, or are they poor rip-offs that embarrass viewers to the extent that they fall over each other in the scramble for the remote?
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/ 15 December 2004
Is Creative Commons a viable alternative to copyright? Stanford University Professor of Law, Lawrence Lessig, proposed the idea of Creative Commons in 2001, and it has since been hailed by some as a possible alternative to copyright.
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/ 15 December 2004
Radio "streaming" may draw in a surprising amount of listeners, but the business prospects have yet to evolve. Matthew Buckland considers the current landscape and future prospects of the net’s audio capabilities.
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/ 15 December 2004
Is there a niche, a valid gap in the market? Is the new title attracting new magazine readers to the pool, or is it simply cannibalising the audience and adspend of other established titles? Is the magazine more dependent on its advertising than its audience? It all comes down to the business plan…
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/ 15 December 2004
American commercial media has a lot in common with state-controlled media in undemocratic states, argues Professor Tawana Kupe.