Ster Moribo has turned one year old. BAFANA KHUMALO looks at the mission to Africanise the movie-going experience THE shutters hide the glory of the venue’s past. The venue is the Eyethu cinema in Mofolo central, Soweto, and the death of the cinema represents the end of a movie-going era. This is the cinema where […]

Shaun de Waal CONTRARYto reports – including one in this paper last week – and information supplied by retrenched staff, Ravan Press is not closing its doors. Gerald de Villiers, executive chairman of Hodder &Stoughton Educational and Ravan, writes:”Yes, Ravan Press, in which Hodder has held a majority shareholding for several years, has recently been […]

OPERA: Coenraad Visser PACT OPERA first staged this astounding production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Hollander in 1991. The Teatro Colon team, Roberto Oswald and Anibal Lapiz, created a visual spectacle the envy of any major opera house. The cast too, led by South Africans Wicus Slabbert and Marieta Napier, would have done any major artistic […]

Lynda Loxton LINKING up with Malaysian group Petronas and listing exploration arm Energy Africa have speeded up Engen’s drive into Africa. Chief executive Rob Angel told a recent media briefing that Petronas’s 30% stake in Engen gave the South African company the financial muscle at a time of squeezed margins to venture into downstream operations […]

showprogramme SEBELITSO MOKONE-MATABANE, the co-chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), tried to persuade the SABC to feature her in a television programme instead of her colleague John Matisonn, whom she said represented a “small white constituency”. The Mail & Guardian learned this week of Mokone-Matabane’s efforts to meddle with the public broadcaster over last […]

GOLF:Jon Swift THERE is, so the talk goes, a job in professional golf that no one wants right now. It is the hole left by the departure of Brent Chalmers as the South African PGA tour commissioner. The public announcement of Chalmers’s departure came at the annual general meeting of the PGA this week, and […]

Eight new radio stations and a new television channel are some of the changes taking place in South Africa’s media industry, writes IBA councillor John Matisonn AROUND September next year, South Africa will have a newly licenced national television channel that will compete head- to-head with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for viewers and […]

CINEMA: Andrew Worsdale YET another dose of foreign film culture hits Gauteng this week with the Italian Film Festival at the Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg. Italian cinema has taken a bit of a dive since the halcyon days of master cineastes Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni and even Sergio Leone. It appears things could now be changing […]

sales Mungo Soggot THE new government’s first privatisation deal – the successful sale of six SABC radio stations – took a severe blow this week when the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)conceded in court its decision on one of the sales was invalid. Counsel representing the IBA, which is fighting claims by Naledi Media Investments that […]

The NP has prepared a detailed list of perks and privileges for the leader of the opposition, reports Gaye Davis THE National Party has proposed a range of perks and privileges it believes the leader of the opposition should be entitled to and the taxpayer should foot the bill for – ranging from unlimited air […]