An increase in poorer students and a decrease in government funding has left universities battling to resolve a cash crisis, writes Andy Duffy THOUSANDS of students could be refused entry to universities next year amid an escalating funding crisis which is forcing institutions to axe staff and courses. Wits, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Fort Hare […]

Lyndall Campher NIGEL BRUCE’S departure from Financial Mail for Finance Week has shaken up the financial newspaper industry and not a moment too soon. Businessmen are now confronted with an interesting and diverse array of choice, unlike the business environment when Financial Mail and Business Day were initially launched. This array of choice extends beyond […]

KEN OWEN accused Cathy O’ Dowd of publishing “unverified rubbish” about the Everest expedition, and concluded “I do hope this is not the journalism taught at Rhodes” (“`Mortal peril’ on Everest,” November 15 to 21). It’s poor journalism to make this comment without giving readers the background that Cathy has been a master’s student and […]

Andrew Worsdale The First International Southern African Film Market has drawn to a close in Cape Town. Our reporters were there THE scale and organisational success of last week’s Film and TV Market in Cape Town was amazing – especially considering the organisers didn’t know if all their finance was in place until four weeks […]

David Beresford responds to some of the rumours circulating about what happened on Everest THE power of women’s tears is legendary and the force is compounded when the woman in question is tough enough to have conquered Mt Everest. Cathy O’Dowd was battling to hold back her tears when I gave her a copy of […]

Companies have a moral obligation to act against human rights abuses, writes Geoffrey Chandler COMPANIES will go where economic opportunity calls. In many countries – such as China, Nigeria and Colombia – opportunity occurs in the context of gross human rights violations committed by government or its security forces. Corporate and national interest are more […]

JACQUIE GOLDING-DUFFY has her doubts about a new children’s TV show EITHER you love them or hate them, but Felicia Mabuza-Suttle and Dali Tambo are not going away. Why not? Not because their shows are roaring successes but because they have managed, perhaps unconsciously, to produce the next generation of clones. Jika Jika, the innovative […]

SAfm’s new station manager has caused ructions among staffers. She spoke to Jacquie Golding-Duffy CHARLENE SMITH has only been station manager of SAfm, South Africa’s oldest radio station, for six weeks. But she has already caused ructions and much dissent. A small group of freelance and full-time staff signed a petition two weeks after Smith […]

The Financial Mail editorship is up for grabs, but no formal offers have yet been made, reports Mungo Soggot BUSINESS REPORT editor Peter Bruce has emerged as a contender for the editorship of the Financial Mail (FM), which lost Nigel Bruce in the the dramatic takeover of Finance Week by former FM editor at large, […]

Angella Johnson POLICE dented the operation of a truck hijacking syndicate this week when they raided a warehouse in one of Johannesburg’s industrial sectors and confiscated R200 000 worth of goods which had been stolen from a lorry hijacked in Gauteng. In one of their quickest hits this year, officers from the anti-hijacking unit, acting […]