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/ 20 October 2003
There’s a view that David Bullard is an elitist who’s unsuited to the new South Africa. His comeback: hedonism sells.
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/ 20 October 2003
The rising black middle class is a demographic that generates intense interest in media circles. But what is this group, and who gets to define it? Jyoti Mistry tackles the problem.
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/ 20 October 2003
There’s an obvious danger in undertaking an in-depth cover piece on the chief of government’s communications apparatus. When one is reporting for an audience of media professionals, a significant percentage of whom are editors and journalists trained in the watchdog paradigm, one runs the unsettling risk of being written off as a lapdog of the leadership, a pawn for politicos, a flunky of the ruling faction.
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/ 20 October 2003
ExxonMobil has been holding a series of secret meetings with environmental and human rights groups worldwide in an effort to change its hard-nosed public image.
The moves have been seized on by the Stop Esso campaign as a sign that its boycott activities aimed at changing the company’s anti-Kyoto treaty views are working.
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/ 20 October 2003
Some of the biggest companies in corporate America last week kicked off the third-quarter earnings season and lifted hopes that the world’s largest economy may be entering a sustained recovery.
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/ 20 October 2003
So Lawrence Dallaglio’s fracas with Thinus Delport did upset the Boks. On Saturday night, after England’s highly-fortunate 26-9 win over South Africa, coach Rudi Straueli dismissed Big Lol’s less-than-full-blooded blow as ”something we should leave to the commissioners and the citing committee.”
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/ 20 October 2003
Left-arm spinner Paul Adams took a career-best 7-128 as South Africa restricted Pakistan’s first-innings total on the third day of the first Test at Gaddafi stadium on Sunday. Adams snapped five wickets to bring Pakistan’s innings to a close on 401 after the home side had been 346-5 at lunch.
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/ 20 October 2003
Fiction, or faction, that novelist’s blend of verifiable information and original spin, has a place in our magazine culture that writers have yet to reclaim. Can Themba, Casey Motsisi, Bloke Modisane and other Drum writers perfected a style of social realism that was perfectly compatible with a commercial format. Graeme Addison tackles the central problematic of the black magazine press: where are the menacing truths of modern South Africa?
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/ 20 October 2003
Steve Thompson was surrounded by so many journalists in the Sheraton Hotel, Melbourne tonight, that he joked about losing weight in the sauna-like conditions. But the cuddly England hooker, sent out to face the press pack before Sunday’s penultimate Pool C clash against Samoa, barely broke a sweat as he handled the trickiest of questions.
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/ 20 October 2003
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. When you watch a magazine go straight from the computer screen to the final printing plate, you would tend to agree. But, asks Megan Chronis, is this black or white magic we’ve seen practised in publishing over the last 20 years?