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 […]

Joshua Amupadhi Accused serial killer Moses Sithole had set up an organisation to campaign against the abuse of women and children, the Pretoria Supreme Court was told this week The man alleged to have slain 37 women and a toddler set himself up as a champion of the oppressed, using “official-looking” letters typed by a […]

ON Tuesday Wilf Paish – the highly respected British athletics coach who was brought to South Africa to prepare South Africa’s athletes for the Olympic Games in Atlanta – returned home two months before his contract was due to expire Paish had tendered his resignation just days before the Olympic team departed for Atlanta in […]

Cheating scientists in many countries have national committees to answer to, write Peter Lennon and Lesley Cowling, but not in South Africa or Britain THERE was a time when we stood to attention at the mention of “scientific” research. But the discovery last week of fraud by a researcher at the United States National Institutes […]

Corruption and incompetence at Eskom’s Soweto division have led to a management shake-up, reports Andy Duffy ESKOM is quietly replacing top staff at one of its largest divisions after an independent investigation uncovered rampant corruption and incompetence among senior management. The parastatal declines to detail the shake- up at the Soweto division, saying its plans […]