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/ 21 October 2003
The big numbers coming out of Cape Town were all in the Naspers results. Donald Paul explains the significance, and in the next snippet comments on the futility of a ‘mixed identity’ excuse.
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/ 21 October 2003
Investors pumped nearly R10-billion into unit trusts over the September quarter, pushing industry assets to R204-billion, equal to 4,4% of the JSE Securities Exchange’s market capitalisation.
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/ 21 October 2003
Is the current global market rally an "echo bubble" as some suggest, or a sustainable recovery after a three-year downturn? And if you missed the 29% rally in local stock prices since April, is it too late to get in?
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/ 21 October 2003
For all its efforts to strengthen ties with the region and the continent, South Africa imported a minuscule 3% of its needs from other African countries during the first six months of this year. The balance of trade with Africa is weighted eight-to-one in South Africa’s favour, aggravated by the economic collapse of it’s largest continental trading partner, Zimbabwe.
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/ 21 October 2003
Many unit trust investors have suffered a bruising attrition of wealth over the past two years, and it may take years to get back to ground zero. Investors looking for value over the next six to 12 months should not count on any serious weakening in the rand.
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/ 21 October 2003
Eleventh-hour hearings on South Africa’s Postal Services Amendment Bill — which has raised concerns among courier service providers — have been interrupted when a parliamentary committee meeting was declared irregular by African National Congress chief whip in the National Council of Provinces.
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/ 21 October 2003
Gender equality in the media is not simply about hiring more women, argues Jyoti Mistry. It is about challenging the patriarchal mindset that drives skewed representation in the media products themselves.
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/ 21 October 2003
It’s no big secret that CNN’s coverage of Africa is dismal. During a recent internship at the Atlanta head offices, SABC reporter Paula Slier took some of the global news giant’s top executives to task.
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/ 21 October 2003
Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s fans feel the plagiarism fiasco is driven by jealousy and schadenfreude. An irritated David Bullard says we either have rules or we don’t.
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/ 21 October 2003
Can regional television save South Africa from itself? In this last article of a four-part series on black media in South Africa – newspapers, magazines, radio and now television – Graeme Addison and Refiloe Mataboge warn that elitist media are out of touch with a populist groundswell. Something has to give.