United States President George Bush stood accused of appropriating the Olympic movement for political means on Sunday night, amid reports he was planning to visit Athens later this week to watch some sporting events, including a potential gold-medal winning bid by the Iraqi football team.
Governments may have to persuade people to eat less meat because of increasing demands on water supplies, according to agricultural scientists investigating how the world can best feed itself. They say countries with little water may choose not to grow crops but trade in ”virtual water”, importing food from countries which have large amounts of water to save their supplies for domestic or high-value uses.
The United States was on Sunday accused by Palestinian leaders of destroying hopes for peace in the Middle East by giving its covert support to Israel’s expansion of controversial settlements in the West Bank. American officials are privately admitting they have abandoned their demands that Israel freeze settlement activity, and have given Jerusalem tacit permission to build thousands of new homes on the disputed land.
There’s more to the possible appointment of Snuki Zikalala as managing director of news and current affairs at the SABC than the private media admit, argues Prof. Tawana Kupe.
The draft "prohibition of hate speech" bill has Reggie Manyakara arguing that the right to equality wins out against the right to freedom of expression.
As a former British Prime Minister said, you need to ask a woman when you want something done. She was, of course, a woman. Harry Herber looks at how that statement applies to the local advertising, media and communications industry.
Is there a big hole in the method the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) uses to audit copy sales? Allan Greenblo, former managing director of BDFM, explains how easy it is for figures to be artificially boosted.
Why is the South African online environment so short on women-focused destinations? Matthew Buckland says it’s part of the medium’s slow upturn.
East African radio seems to be moving towards true liberalisation, as the examples of Capital FM and Kiss FM show. But, explains George Ogola, the Kenyan, Ugandan and Tanzanian governments are not letting go the reins just yet.
South African women are finally taking their rightful places in front of the camera and behind the mike, but it’s not simply an issue of making the quotas. Benedicta Dube unpacks the darker side of female sex appeal.