Rescheduling has led to a struggle to save programmes, reports Jacquie Golding-Duffy AN embattled SABC current affairs division is scrambling to salvage some of its programmes in the wake of a shake-up in the department’s schedules. Viewers of SABC3 will only have one current affairs slot a week, scheduled for 9.30pm on Thursdays, while viewers […]
Hazel Friedman AFTER months of expectation, this week saw the launch of the National Arts Council (NAC) – an independent statutory board established to allocate funding for the arts. Even though the NAC Bill has yet to be passed by Cabinet, the official NAC lift-off was announced by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and […]
Marion Edmunds MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES by Thomas Pakenham (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, R195) LEAVING the skirmishes of the Boer War behind him, and the unsightly scramble by colonialists for Africa, award-winning historian Sir Thomas Pakenham has chosen still, silent subjects for his most recent research. Meetings with Remarkable Trees is an unusual and beautiful picture […]
TENNIS:Andrew Spencer THERE is, in the Swedes, the kind of chill aloofness about the way they go about the business of churning out top tennis players that reflects, in many ways, the engineered correctness of their heavy industry. The thought of flaws and setbacks being anything other than a temporary aberration simply does not exist. […]
water Eddie Koch THE construction of expensive and environmentally damaging dams – and new inter-catchment transfer schemes like the controversial Lesotho Highlands Project – could be postponed by revolutionary water- saving measures contained in municipal regulations to be introduced across the country this year. The proposed Israeli-style regulations, some of them so dramatic they were […]
CLASSICAL ON CD: Coenraad Visser THE new Decca diva is American soprano Renee Fleming. Two years ago she was a last-minute replacement for Georg Solti’s live recording of Cosi fan tutte. So enthusiastic was the critical reception that Decca immediately signed her as an exclusive artist. That spurred a publicity campaign last launched to place […]
In the first of a series of articles on economic policy, Asghar Adelzadeh of the National Institute for Economic Policy looks at industrial development South Africa’s industrial development has been and remains deficient, with serious problems: a lack of capacity in intermediate and capital goods; an aged capital stock, reflecting limited investment in the past; […]
Ann Eveleth THE Inkatha Freedom Party is planning to strip all political powers from its secretary general’s post in an effort to prevent future holders commanding the influence over the party enjoyed by past incumbents. Ben Ngubane, the KwaZulu-Natal premier and IFP acting national chairman, told the Mail & Guardian this week that party officials […]
Mark Milner and Christopher Zinn in Sydney AUSTRALIA is facing one of the biggest share flops in its history after investors cold-shouldered an innovative package aimed at financing the building of the Sydney 2000 Olympic stadium. Final figures for the A$364,4-million (R1265-million) issue, which closed on Thursday last week, have not yet been released, but […]
TV programmes are being rescheduled in an attempt to win back advertisers and viewers, reportGillian Farquhar and Jacquie Golding-Duffy IN an effort to increase advertising revenue and attract viewers, the SABC’s three TV channels are rescheduling prime- time programmes, dropping most magazine productions and introducing “more entertainment-driven” television like game shows and foreign sitcoms. The […]