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/ 12 November 2003
Although there are recent and encouraging signs the online advertising market is improving, publishers are now looking at other revenue streams – one being the highly controversial ‘paid-content’ model. It’s billed as the next big step in the evolution of online publishing and could see dramatic changes to South Africa’s webscape.
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/ 12 November 2003
Not only has the loveLife media campaign failed to deliver on its promise of halving the prevalence of Aids, writes Chris Barron, but it has signed contracts with major media owners that effectively silence criticism.
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/ 12 November 2003
South Africa’s controversial plans to push forward with the construction of a new nuclear reactor continue to raise the ire of environmentalists across the country. But until recently the voices of protest were mostly those of the white middle classes. Now grassroots activism is being intensified to ensure that all communities are fully aware of the potential risks of nuclear energy.
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/ 12 November 2003
Each morning Pat Magubane wakes at dawn, hurries through her household tasks and sets off for a dusty building site to start her 10-hour work day. Magubane is no wage slave rushing to clock in before the boss — in fact she doesn’t get a wage all. She is a volunteer at the Doornkop People’s Housing Process, which equips unemployed people with building skills and the materials to build houses for the most needy in her community.
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/ 12 November 2003
When Groucho Marx quipped that he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member, he didn’t say anything about the alternative: joining a club that didn’t want him. People do though. Why do homosexuals remain in communion with people who regard their sexuality as an abomination in the eyes of the Lord?
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/ 12 November 2003
Thinking of buying a diamond for your loved one as a symbol of your eternal love? You’ll want to read what Ian Fraser has to say on the commercialist con game that is the diamond industry first, as well as its links to al-Qaeda and the funding of a range of deadly wars. And DVD fans will be pleased to get one up on local stockists by finding out what Amazon has in store.
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/ 12 November 2003
Recently the editor of Business Report, Alide Dasnois, criticised Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni for his arrogance and rudeness in dealing with journalists’ questions. This incident got Graeme Addison asking journalists their experiences of how senior officials and politicians treat them.
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/ 12 November 2003
If the best things in life are free (or almost), why aren’t customer magazines up near the top? Megan Chronis looks at the main reasons why some of SA’s biggest magazines – the customer titles – remain in the shadow of their consumer cousins.
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/ 12 November 2003
From the Indian bride to the Italian wife with an expensive designer necklace, through to the British teenager who buys her first nine-carat hoops from H Samuel, women are the main buyers of gold jewellery. And as 80% of gold produced each year is turned into jewellery, it quickly becomes clear why the World Gold Council and its members are so keenly targeting women.
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/ 12 November 2003
A scheme that pays unemployed people to abseil down cliffs and hack plants with chainsaws is claimed to be a model for how the world should tackle invasive alien species. South Africa has been chosen to spearhead an international initiative against destructive plants and wild-life, after mobilising its township poor to save indigenous habitats.