BAFANA KHUMALO talks to two young DJs who are making waves on community radio HIS name first cropped up at one of those PR junkets where rich companies spend an enormous amount of money to win over newspaper hacks with an appetite for expensive food. He is Zakile Dakile – shortened to Zak because, he […]

>From secretive parastatal to private-sector partner, the metamorphosis of the CSIR has been significant. New challenges of funding and resources lie ahead, writes Madeleine Wackernagel CONSIDER that the world’s top 30 companies together spend more on research and development than South Africa as a whole and you get an idea of the challenges facing the […]

To win the Test series in India South Africa don’t just need `good’ cricketers, they need match winners – and Paul Adams fits that description CRICKET:V Roger Prabasarkar A FANTASTIC gamble – or a simple case of common sense. Paul Adams, on one hand, was asked to join the South African squad in India on […]

Jonathan Shapiro – better known to readers of this paper as Zapiro – has been lampooning the powerful for years. He spoke to GLYNISO’HARA T O interview cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro at his Johannesburg friend’s Auckland Park home is to enter into a richly chaotic life. A tiny mouse runs across the kitchen floor, causing embarrassed […]

An increase in poorer students and a decrease in government funding has left universities battling to resolve a cash crisis, writes Andy Duffy THOUSANDS of students could be refused entry to universities next year amid an escalating funding crisis which is forcing institutions to axe staff and courses. Wits, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Fort Hare […]

Lyndall Campher NIGEL BRUCE’S departure from Financial Mail for Finance Week has shaken up the financial newspaper industry and not a moment too soon. Businessmen are now confronted with an interesting and diverse array of choice, unlike the business environment when Financial Mail and Business Day were initially launched. This array of choice extends beyond […]

KEN OWEN accused Cathy O’ Dowd of publishing “unverified rubbish” about the Everest expedition, and concluded “I do hope this is not the journalism taught at Rhodes” (“`Mortal peril’ on Everest,” November 15 to 21). It’s poor journalism to make this comment without giving readers the background that Cathy has been a master’s student and […]

Andrew Worsdale The First International Southern African Film Market has drawn to a close in Cape Town. Our reporters were there THE scale and organisational success of last week’s Film and TV Market in Cape Town was amazing – especially considering the organisers didn’t know if all their finance was in place until four weeks […]

David Beresford responds to some of the rumours circulating about what happened on Everest THE power of women’s tears is legendary and the force is compounded when the woman in question is tough enough to have conquered Mt Everest. Cathy O’Dowd was battling to hold back her tears when I gave her a copy of […]

Companies have a moral obligation to act against human rights abuses, writes Geoffrey Chandler COMPANIES will go where economic opportunity calls. In many countries – such as China, Nigeria and Colombia – opportunity occurs in the context of gross human rights violations committed by government or its security forces. Corporate and national interest are more […]