Former associate editor Gerald Shaw argues a charter is useless unless there is all-round support Times Media Limited’s proposed editorial charter for preserving the independence of their newspapers is poorly timed, as the Mail & Guardian has argued (July 12 to 18), but there are more compelling reasons to have scant confidence in the TML […]
It’s costing plenty, but the SABC won’t be winning any medals for its Olympic coverage, writes Justin Pearce THE South African Broadcsting Corporation will not reveal how much it spent on sending 87 staffers to cover the Olympic Games in Atlanta — amid accusations the quality of the coverage barely justifies sending an SABC team […]
Justin Pearce SOUTH African Airways’ sponsorship of the Olympic team’s trip to Atlanta cost about R25-million, the Mail & Guardian has learned. SAA spokesman Leon Els would not comment on the sum involved, but said the sponsorship money came from SAA’s promotions budget and was part of a broader business plan. SAA has recently been […]
Eddie Koch The Post Office, the institution which once symbolised bureaucratic incompetence, could be converted into a rural bank which will stimulate a thriving small-farm economy in the countryside. The lack of banking services in the platteland — along with soaring levels of rural crime — is fast becoming a major block to the government’s […]
The Media Monitoring Project has charged that the media industry is understaffed, under-resourced, and not critical enough of the government, writes Jacquie Golding-Duffy MEDIA coverage of the government is more positive than negative, reports an independent monitoring group. The report, in which the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) considered print and broadcast media between April and […]
Thandi Lewin For the first time in decades, the University of Cape Town is without an elected students representative council (SRC). Less than 25% of students turned out to vote at the last poll, which, according to the constitution, is not enough to form an SRC, and now new elections must be held next month. […]
SOCCER: Andrew Muchineripi THE final whistle will be blown on the Coca-Cola Challenge Cup this Sunday when Sundowns host Orlando Pirates at the Israeli-designed Odi Stadium north- west of Pretoria. Pirates enter the match needing an eight-goal victory to overtake arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs on goal difference while success for Sundowns would lift them above Wits […]
Nine murders, five attempted murders — that’s this year’s toll in Jo’burg’s roughest `hood. Angella Johnson visited Westbury this week JOEWA BOTHA leaned nonchalantly against the graffitied wall. He knows the risk of standing on a street corner — a target for drive-by gang shooting. “Look!”, he said, as he pointed excitedly at pock-marked plaster. […]
A group of black farmworkers and a few tough white boers in khaki have worked together to turn their farm into a record-producing money-spinner, reports Eddie Koch The Lomati Valley, a fertile piece of subtropical bushveld that lies in the shadow of the Lebombo Mountains in Mpumalanga, has produced some of the hardiest of South […]
RUGBY: Jon Swift THROUGHOUT the tragically under-promoted Student Rugby World Cup which came and went with barely a ripple over the past month, there was the feeling that this was a shop window of one of South African sport’s biggest failings … the big things we do well, in the lesser concerns we do dismally. […]