DESIGN: Hazel Friedman THE undisputed winner of the Mail & Guardian’s Not the Pirelli Calendar Prize for 1997 is the calendar put out by the women’s support group, Powa (People Opposing Women Abuse). A collaborative project between the organisation and the Fine Arts Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, the calendarconsists of provocative images […]

The Dolphin Group has put together a deal that not only includes Mpumalanga’s prime resorts, but could also be at public expense, reports Justin Arenstein The Mpumalanga government has handed over its main natural assets to an unknown foreign company and has promised not to talk about the deal for 50 years. The contract which […]

Joseph Hanlon PEACE has not brought prosperity to Mozambique. Four years after the end of the civil war, the poorest country in the world is growing poorer. The reason is that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ruled that annual inflation must be brought below 15%t before there can be significant post-war reconstruction. This policy […]

cricket: Jon Swift South African cricketers can truly be said to be in the process of charting new waters. To understand this, what goes on behind the scenes must be considered. The most public changes are in personnel at national and provincial levels. Less obvious are the growth of the development programme and the ongoing […]

With much change occurring in the print industry, editors have been playing the game of job-swapping, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy Nineteen-ninety-six was the year of musical chairs in the media – particularly in the print media, where editors changed jobs in double-quick time. The game began in March when the then-Cape Argus newspaper’s long-serving editor, Andrew […]

We asked a host of South African writers, most of whom had a new book out in 1996, what their favourite book of the year was Andre Brink, author of Imaginings of Sand: I have no hesitation in nominating as my book of the year the novel Self-Portrait with Woman by the Polish Andrzej Szczypiorski […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy IN its report last month, the task group on government communications (Comtask), set up by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, urged government departments to improve relations with the media and ensure speedy responses to queries. I can assure you that the Media Mad column, which appears regularly on the Antenna pages, received no speedy […]

The woes of South Africa’s sex workers suggest that a virginal Richard Branson boobed when he chose a brothel to launch a new product, writes Jacquie Goldin g-Duffy British billionaire Richard Branson seemed to show a fine sense of irony – whe ther intentionally, or not – when he came out to South Africa earlier […]

The newly appointed SABC board has a harder task than its predecessors, warn media industry observers: to salvage the broadcaster from the brink of bankruptcy. The SABC will also have to improve its programme content and deliver audiences as promised if it wants advertisers to convince their clients to use it as a viable advertising […]

WEB FEET Notes from the Net At the end of 1995, Newsweek ran a front cover declaring the previous 12 months “The Year of the Internet”. If that was a true reflection of the impact made by the Net in ’95, then they will have run out of ways to describe 1996, so much more […]