Passports have been filled with new and exciting visas. Three weeks leave has become more like six or eight weeks leave. Media planners and buyers are having a ball, and its costing media owners plenty. As far as Harry Herber sees it, there isn’t much difference between agency staff accepting media owners’ "incentivised" offers or their free overseas trips.
The ANC is going to win the third democratic elections, so say the media and analysts. This is true. So how is the media going to cover a competitive contest where the result is already known? Tawana Kupe thinks the media should alert the elite it so loves to the dangers of endemic poverty.
Election year 2004 promises to be a tough test for radio. Independent SABC news and current affairs commentary has the "philosophical" backing of senior management. Graeme Addison inspects what this could mean in the race to elect the third democratic government in South Africa.
Restraints protect the employer at the expense of the employee – they restrict the employee’s freedom of trade in some way. Our courts will not overturn a restraint of trade agreement just because it is unfair, says Toni Erling, but there are instances where an employee might have an out.
Once proffered under the counter in plain brown wrappers or lurking on the top shelves of corner cafs, men’s magazines now muscle for space with the likes of <i>Cosmo</i>, <i>Sarie</i> and <i>You</i>. Donald Paul looks at the rise of the "hooligan movement".
Tasked to look into the "reception and recall of HIV/Aids-related news in a defined community, SABC journalist Ida Jooste reveals poor communities have more media savvy than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Residents of Cato Manor, in Durban, think we should beef up Aids coverage.
Saddam’s capture was George W. Bush’s second Christmas gift, claims Tim Spira. The first? Michael Jackson’s child abuse charges. What possible impact, you may ask, could the alleged shenanigans of a has-been moonwalker have on the popularity of the world’s most powerful head of state?
The new Toyota RAV4 three door is a perfect little runabout for its target market — young men and women without kids who want the 4X4 image and the quality it offers. It’s well built and it’s perky, and its well equipped with comfort and safety features.
"I read with interest the opinion piece ‘Jamming the airwaves’ after the release of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s position paper on the broadcasting industry. However, the writer, John van Zyl, is mistaken on some accounts," writes Omar Essack, executive director: broadcasting at Kagiso Media Limited. Radio consolidation is the way to create more variety for listeners and advertisers.
Now in the realm of the possible: teams of formerly unemployed youth creating parks and soccer fields to replace squatter camps. Local authority home-care programmes providing support to the chronically ill in small towns and caring for orphans. Public works, skills training and economic empowerment are the pillars of progress.