As women of colour become increasingly important media players and consumers, why aren’t we seeing more of them in our glossy women’s magazines? Nechama Brodie reports.
There are two sets of statistics in this issue which, when taken together, suggest a startling disparity between South Africa and the United States in the gender equality stakes. What gives? If the calibre of individuals in the annual "top 10 women in media" feature is anything to go by, South Africa is certainly not short of female flair.
George Monbiot, internationally renowned author, UK <i>Guardian</i> newspaper columnist and recipient of a United Nations Global 500 Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievement will be giving the keynote address at EnviroMedia 2004.
What is exceptional about the violence of the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Darfur is less its scale than the intense international attention it has received. The alternative to armed intervention is certainly not passive resignation. We should fund the immediate and forceful deployment of African peacekeepers and build on the example recently set by Paul Kagame’s Rwanda.
Elitism can’t be politically incorrect anymore because we have a whole bunch of new titles telling us how to spend money instead of how to make it. Where does that leave David Bullard?
South African tourists to Athens for the Olympic Games have fascinating stories to tell, but none like Old Eds hockey player Samantha Krog and her travelling partner, Karen Kennedy, who found themselves booked into a brothel. They had a surprise waiting for them when they arrived at the hotel they had booked on the internet.
Special Report: Olympics 2004
The first thing you notice as you approach John Kenneth Galbraith’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a stone’s throw from Harvard University, is a ”Kerry/ Edwards for president” poster in a ground-floor window, a hint of the politics that has dominated his life. At 95, Galbraith, one of the greatest political and economic thinkers of the past century, is still politically engaged. He speaks about his new book.
The trial of eight South Africans accused of plotting a coup d’état in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea is due to open in Malabo on Monday with claims of torture and denial of due process casting doubts over the proceedings. The eight men detained at the notorious Black Beach prison in Malabo along with six Armenians and a German — who died in custody — were arrested in early March for conspiring to topple leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
South Africans Chris Haggard and Robbie Koenig made up for their disappointment at being left out of the Olympic team by winning the doubles title at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington on Sunday night. In June, the National Olympic Committee of South Africa refused to sanction the players’ entry in the Olympic Games.
They inconvenienced commuters and drew the wrath of taxi drivers, but have Kenya’s new transport regulations also managed to make traffic conditions in the country less hazardous? At the start of February this year, the government implemented a series of regulations aimed at reducing mayhem on the nation’s roads, including stipulations on safety belts as well as speed regulation.