Angeline Oyog in Paris Industrialised nations may in the long term have more to=20 gain than lose from the rapid expansion of emerging=20 economies in certain developing countries, says the=20 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development=20 (OECD) in a new report. Looking at long-term economic interests, the report said=20 the industrialised OECD members should be […]

Karen MacGregor THE number of African students registered at South African universities has trebled in the last 10 years – – and for the first time ever, last year more students were African than any other race group — according to the recently released Race Relations Survey 1994/95. The growing representation of black people was […]

Gaye Davis MEDIA-BASHING and government-run media slots offered no solution to the problems the government was having in informing people about what it was doing, ANC MP Carl Niehaus said this week. Calling for an urgent presidential commission to investigate how government communicates, Niehaus said the South African Communications Service (Sacs), formerly the propaganda arm […]

JAZZ pianist Moses Molelekwa admits to a degree of=20 schizophrenia. “Musically, I’ve always lived in two=20 worlds,” he says. “First, there’s the jazz world of home=20 and of the Fuba Academy where I trained. My grandfather was=20 a musician, although I never knew that — or him — until=20 just before his death in the […]

Crime has taken over from politics as our country’s major source of instability, the largest brake on development, the most common reason for emigration and the greatest fear of investors. A solution requires a combination of cash, public support and involvement, and — most important of all — imagination. One of the oddities of the […]

The need to create jobs has emerged as the burning issue for the government, labour and business, reports Reg Rumney Suddenly, at the end of a year in which economic growth and fiscal and monetary discipline held centre stage, joblessness has entered like Banquo’s ghost. The official unemployment rate is around 33 percent, but the […]

Welcome Msomi, creator of Umabatha, in The Mark Gevisser Profile The divine justice of it all. When Welcome Msomi took his “Zulu Macbeth” to New York in 1979, he found it boycotted by the African National Congress and its supporters, who claimed that because it was “ethnic” (Zulu costumes, Zulu language, Zulu dancing), it had […]

Gary Cummiskey=20 SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 7: The Small Miracle edited by Steve=20 Friedman and Doreen Atkinson (Raven Press, R49,99)=20 THE Small Miracle is a compilation of essays and the sequel=20 to The Long Journey, which traced the story of Codesa I and=20 II. This wide-ranging new volume focuses on events and=20 issues from Codesa to […]

Clive Simpkins THREE very different events, one sporting, one advertising, and one political, focus attention on the eclectic nature of marketing in South Africa today. The Rugby World Cup is in full swing. The marketing lesson that emerges from this event is this: there should have been some central co-ordinating unit, looking at all intrusions […]

Clive Simpkins takes a look at the Loeries — the Comrades=20 Marathon of advertising and marketing THE advertising industry Loerie Awards have come and gone=20 and the usual hangover-impaired postmortem is in full=20 The awards, where the marketing community recognises=20 advertising excellence, have always been controversial and=20 this year was no exception. Even as the […]