Jacquie Golding-Duffy INDEPENDENT producers have still to be convinced that the SABC’s planned internal production cutbacks will prompt the broadcaster to hand them more work. Many producers say more work will have to come to the independent sector, but others argue the SABC’s cutbacks will simply put more producers into an already competitive market. Most […]

A R60-million European Union aid package to Zambia has been rejected by the government on grounds of racism, reports Anthony Kunda in Lusaka THE Zambian government has rejected a European Union aid package of R60-million earmarked for its Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (Asip) as it would benefit the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU). Minister of […]

The shortcomings of South Africa’s top order batsmen that led to two defeats by the Australians have revealed South Africa’s real place in the Test hierarchy CRICKET: Jon Swift OUR singular lack of success in the current Test series against Australia which winds its weary way to conclusion at Centurion Park over the next five […]

Young girls selling sex in hotels, young boys selling sex on the street – child abuse is rife in South Africa Stuart Hess PLAYING in the street with her friends, she looks like any ordinary four-year-old girl. Wearing a dirty pink polkadot dress, Thembi (not her real name) plays happily, but her smile disappears when […]

The competitors may have mixed motives, but the sport’s organisers have Olympic hopes, writes Jonathan Watts WOMEN’S sumo may have been established in Japan last year with the aim of making it an Olympic event, but even the competitors are finding it difficult to take the sport entirely seriously. “I suppose it is still a […]

JOYCE OZYNSKI grieves over the lost architectural opportunities in Johannesburg’s Central Business District THERE is some medicine for Johannesburg’s ugly, neglected Central Business District (CBD) that no one has yet prescribed. It is this: city council architects and town planners should be obliged to live and work in the centre of the CBD vortex before […]

The umpteenth round in the Finance Week versus Times Media wrangle has once again come to naught, writes Jacquie Golding- Duffy FINANCE WEEK made a cheeky attempt to nail Jim Jones, editor of its rival, Business Day, by placing an advertisement in the daily publication which attacked Jones and other Times Media Limited editors but […]

SABC staff make do with veggie burgers as they debate the R450-million question: who is to blame? It’s either the fault of the new management or the old, reports Peta Thornycroft MARTINUS VAN SCHALKWYK pursed his lips and ticked off an exhausted SABC chief executive Zwelakhe Sisulu at a press conference last week. The National […]

Donald W Nauss in Dearborn, Michigan THE Ford Motor Company this week unveiled an advanced mid-sized sedan that is 40% lighter than today’s comparable vehicles and gets up to 30km/l. Prototypes will be produced later this year. The company said the experimental vehicle, the P2000, would use a small, efficient diesel engine. Two versions would […]

THE public backing Minister of Justice Dullah Omar has given to Dr Allan Boesak in advance of his trial on criminal charges is a subject on which it is easy to pontificate. The issue at stake is within the grasp of a schoolchild. The minister of justice, who carries a responsibility for the impartiality of […]