JACQUIE GOLDING-DUFFY has her doubts about a new children’s TV show EITHER you love them or hate them, but Felicia Mabuza-Suttle and Dali Tambo are not going away. Why not? Not because their shows are roaring successes but because they have managed, perhaps unconsciously, to produce the next generation of clones. Jika Jika, the innovative […]

SAfm’s new station manager has caused ructions among staffers. She spoke to Jacquie Golding-Duffy CHARLENE SMITH has only been station manager of SAfm, South Africa’s oldest radio station, for six weeks. But she has already caused ructions and much dissent. A small group of freelance and full-time staff signed a petition two weeks after Smith […]

The Financial Mail editorship is up for grabs, but no formal offers have yet been made, reports Mungo Soggot BUSINESS REPORT editor Peter Bruce has emerged as a contender for the editorship of the Financial Mail (FM), which lost Nigel Bruce in the the dramatic takeover of Finance Week by former FM editor at large, […]

Angella Johnson POLICE dented the operation of a truck hijacking syndicate this week when they raided a warehouse in one of Johannesburg’s industrial sectors and confiscated R200 000 worth of goods which had been stolen from a lorry hijacked in Gauteng. In one of their quickest hits this year, officers from the anti-hijacking unit, acting […]

Media editor Jacquie Golding-Duffy takes exception to being excluded from this week’s tte–tte THE meeting this week between President Nelson Mandela and 22 black journalists, among them prominent and respected black editors, has been labelled “fruitful” by presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana. It was, he says, a “no-holds-barred” discussion and “at the end of the day […]

The White Paper on science and technology aims to turn South Africa into a power to be reckoned with, writes Lesley Cowling THE White Paper launched by the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in Pretoria this week is the culmination of 18 months of debate by representatives of all sci-tech sectors. Their aim? […]

Confidential papers point to a top-level plot to oust Transnet executive Sipho Nyawo, reports Andy Duffy SACKED Transnet executive Sipho Nyawo was the victim of a “witch-hunt” by white management fearful of government plans to transform the parastatal, acting Portnet chief executive Ivor Funnell says. In his submission to an inquiry which ended this month […]

The latest hike in interest rates will put further pressure on already squeezed consumers, reports Max Gebhardt THE banks followed Reserve Bank Governor Chris Stals’s lead this week with a 1% rise in interest rates, hitting consumers exactly where it hurts most – in their pockets. The commercial banks’ decision to raise the prime overdraft […]

THE White Paper for science and technology is, in many ways, a model of legislation. The consultation process was inclusive, gathering together scientists, technologists and engineers from all sectors. The Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology was receptive to its constituency and tried to accommodate everyone’s views and needs. And the resulting document is […]