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/ 13 October 2003
Is it permissible, in exceptional circumstances, to intercept and/or monitor communications which can be transmitted via a telephone line, including telephone calls, emails and faxes, without authorisation of the parties involved?
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/ 13 October 2003
The dynamic of Zimbabwes mushrooming private press flies in the face of economic orthodoxy, argues Wallace Chuma. How is it that new products continue being unleashed on a turbulent market characterised by falling demand and shocking uncertainty?
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/ 13 October 2003
As part of the SABCs valiant efforts to bolster the film industry in South Africa, they have been running a series aimed at aspirant film-makers. Jyoti Mistry of Wits asks whether Quickies is achieving the aim or glossing over the real requirements.
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/ 13 October 2003
The media strategist faces a shifting environment. In 2002 almost everything promotes, advertises, markets cell phones, motor vehicles, pizza boxes, rubbish bins, parking lot booms. Some advice for the media suppliers.
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/ 13 October 2003
There’s not going to be a Big Brother 3 this year. As it turns out, the experience of interactive navel-gazing wasn’t so much fun the second time round. Instead of giving the kids of local subscribers yet another SMS-based national bulletin board, Multichoice is going after untainted subscribers up north.
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/ 13 October 2003
In 1967 a near-fatal disease struck The New Yorker then, as now, one of the most successful magazines on the planet. Fortunately for the owners, the virus kind of petered out before The New Yorker keeled over.
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/ 13 October 2003
Keynote speaker Thabo Mbeki turned the tables on the issues at an indaba of 100 editors from across the African continent. Tawana Kupe was there.
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/ 13 October 2003
As promised last month, Im back with the African agenda at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). And as I noted there, African media still has not caught on to the fact that the summit is nine months away. Its a pity.
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/ 13 October 2003
Tawana Kupe of Wits University discusses the groundbreaking benefits of the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa.