The IBA’s latest strategy on radio frequencies severely restricts potential independent commercial stations, writes Neil Bierbaum ONLY five low-power frequencies are available for commercial stations in Gauteng and some of these may be allocated to the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This is only one severely limiting implication of the frequency spectrum plan published by the […]

The ‘video virtual meeting’ has now come of age as a strategic business tool. Leon Perlman reports Cut-rate airfares, Voyager Miles and bargain hotel and car hire deals are set to face stiff competition from an unlikely source — the telephone line. With near-video quality images, video-conferencing over normal copper telephone lines using new high […]

Andrew Hudson has returned to form just in time to counter the powerful batting line-up of the English tourists Cricket: Jon Swift IT SHOULD be cause for much rejoicing that two of this South Africa’s most talented cricketers have been given a foretaste of success at Test level before this country joins in battle with […]

A billboard battle highlights the need for a uniform policy on outdoor advertising, writes Neil Bierbaum A FIGHT over a billboard on the grounds of a school in Sandton could turn into a test case affecting the future of outdoor advertising in the country. The billboard, at St Peter’s School, advertises Bridgestone Tyres and is […]

IN THE DOCK: Former Italian prime minister Silvio =20 Berlusconi, committed to trial in Milan on corruption =20 JAILED: Keith Moore, Sting’s former accountant, =20 sentenced to six years for stealing Stg 6-million from =20 the rock star=20 HONOURED: Cape Times editor Mogsien Williams named =20 Sowetan Journalist of the Year at a Press Freedom […]

Janet Wilhelm=20 Age: Somewhere between angry young political firebrand =20 and boardroom fossil.=20 Also known as: Ex-Benny Alexander!=20 Appearance: Also in transition. Businesslike blue suits =20 with fewer lapses into ethnic West African dashikis and =20 Mao tunics.=20 Is that what they call dressing for success? He is =20 following the modern fashion trend of […]

BLACK pride returned to Washington on Monday in the =20 shape of the Million Man March. The contrast between =20 the last time such civil rights numbers assembled and =20 now could not be greater. =20 Three decades ago the great black leader, Martin Luther =20 King, warned his people “not to thirst for freedom […]

Jan Taljaard and Annicia Reddiar=20 MOSES SITHOLE, prime suspect in the Gauteng serial =20 killings, was caught by police this week and is likely =20 to stand trial for the murder of up to 40 young women -=20 – but it had almost gone the other way.=20 In an almost uncanny replay of the incident […]

Nigeria’s exiled democracy campaigner Wole Soyinka =20 tells Bartholomeus Grill about his disappointment at =20 the way South Africa’s leaders are turning a blind eye =20 to the excesses of Sani Abacha’s military regime=20 WRITER Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s foremost democracy =20 campaigner-in-exile, has spoken angrily about the =20 failure of President Nelson Mandela — the […]

It’s time that the insured stood up for their insurance, reports Karen Harverson Insurance law in South Africa, unlike some European countries, is far more favourable to the insurer than the insured. The onus rests on the insured at the time of taking out a policy to disclose all material facts to the insurer of […]