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 […]

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 […]