Andrew Culf THE BBC has ordered a rethink of all its news programmes from Newsnight to Radio 4’s Today in a move which could herald significant changes for viewers and listeners. The programme strategy review is the biggest overhaul of the BBC’s news output for 10 years. It could lead to some shows being axed […]

SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi AS the South African Football Association (Safa) seeks solutions to its man= y p roblems, they could do much worse than phone 643-3341 and ask for Mr Trevor= Ph illips. The chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) may not have= al l the answers to all the questions, but the […]

Ghetto Diaries, the award-winning M&G-TV series, starts a new season. ANDRE= W W ORSDALE previews=20 WHEN I was asked to cover the new series of Mail & Guardian Television’s Gh= ett o Diaries I told editorial and filmic staff there was no way I could write = a r eview as an advertorial. I was […]

Caitlin Davies in Maun GOOD rains in Namibia recently have delayed plans to pipe water from the Okavango River down to Windhoek – siphoning it off before it ever reaches the unique Okavango Delta in northern Botswana – but as far as Botswana is concerned, the controversy is not over yet. Though everyone agrees the […]

Jim Day A COUPLE of hundred Mozambican children filled the sandy school playground, some lounging in the shade of a shady tree, others practising their Van Damme kickboxing moves, while a small group of student volunteers from South Africa and elsewhere put the finishing touches on their rebuilt school. While one of the volunteers painted […]

PEOPLE AT THE EDGE Lesley Cowling WHO remembers Max Perkins? But I’ll bet you remember Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the host of other American writers he painstakingly nurtured until they achieved fame. Perkins is one of the forgotten people of the literary world, as most good editors are. Most sectors have these people, individuals whose role […]

A founding editor of the Mail & Guardian, Anton Harber, is leaving the newspaper for radio, writes an M&G Reporter

Mungo Soggot CRAIG WILLIAMSON, the spy turned media celebrity, was “contemptuous” in his attitude toward the justice system and the truth commission, the Pretoria Supreme Court heard this week. Williamson was appearing in the first round of a case that could become a landmark clash between the truth commission and the justice system. He is […]

TENNIS:Jon Swift IT is well, with the weekend’s Davis Cup World Group tie at Durban’s Westridge Park in view, to keep an eye on the quintessential cornerstone of the Russian psyche – hardship is not a new phenomenon, it is to be both expected and endured. The Russians go into the crucial five-match encounter suffering […]

Glynis O’Hara WHAT do you do when there are two radio stations with substantially the same format, both wanting a slice of the airwaves? Will it be overkill for listeners and too much competition for advertisers? Or should the discipline of the free market be left to sort out who will and who won’t survive? […]