American newspapers were embroiled in another scandal on Tuesday following the resignation of two publishers prompted by an investigation into fraudulent circulation figures intended to increase advertising revenues. The publishers of New York Newsday and its Hispanic sister paper, Hoy, stepped down when an investigation exposed deceit stretching back several years.
If you haven’t been watching the shorts slots on TV then the concept of Sho’t Left will most likely be completely alien to you. It’s a minibus taxi term that means, basically, ”pull over here” and has been adopted by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and South African Tourism as a catchphrase encouraging us to explore our own backyard.
The tourism industry, a nascent economic powerhouse, is the latest to catch black economic empowerment (BEE) charter fever. It has given itself six months to draw up a BEE charter to ensure more blacks are brought into the industry. Fourteen mandarins have been appointed to lead the process. The future of tourism, it seems, is sunny, but not pale.
The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Dubai is usually shopping — quality gold and electronic goods at bargain prices, made even cheaper by the fact that it’s all tax free — you never think about the fact that it is in the desert, right? If you can tolerate the heat, don’t mind the bigger-is-better mentality and have money to burn, Dubai is the place for you.
"Let’s start off with something totally apolitical. Take a look at an interesting article that shows a rather different view of South Africa than the one you might be used to. <i>Read Marxists Destroy New South Africa</i>. (And before any readers whine at me, I’m not right-wing, I’m an anarchist. So my take is fairly simple.)" Read Fraser’s take on what offers online.
Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town creative director Conn Bertish looks like a male model best suited to commercials, but the boy’s got brains to match his good looks. Bertish’s creative streak has secured his agency the International Gold Flame Award at an annual ceremony held in Mauritius for the best international low-budget commercial flighted on television.
Anthony Tamba is helping to rebuild his brother’s house on the outskirts of Tubmanburg, a provincial town 60km north of the Liberian capital, Monrovia. He and his family were tired of living in one of the many camps for internally displaced persons on the edge of Monrovia, so they decided to start moving home instead of waiting for the launch of the government’s community resettlement programme.
South Africa will field two changes to their team to face the All Blacks in the Tri-Nations rugby Test at Jade Stadium in Christchurch on Saturday. A broken nose suffered against the Pacific Islanders in the 38-24 win at Gosford in New South Wales last Saturday has ruled lock Gerrie Britz out of contention and his place goes to Albert van den Berg.
Lance Armstrong took another step towards an historic sixth yellow jersey on the Tour de France on Tuesday with an exciting, if unfamiliar, winning sprint which handed him the yellow jersey. Armstrong put his largely unseen sprint qualities on show to win the 15th stage held over 180,5km between Valreas and Villard-de-Lans ahead of Italian Ivan Basso.
The unavailability of direct flights to Algiers, Algeria has forced Supersport United to leave in two separate groups for their crucial African Champions League match against USM Alger on Friday night. The first group of United players and senior officials left for the North African country on Monday night and the second one departed on Tuesday night.