Media & Marketing By Clive Simkins KEEPING a finger right on the pulse of market change is vital. Here are two more of Ogilvy & Mather’s seven recently researched trends, unique to South Africa, that fly with joyous abandon in the face of Faith Popcorn’s American “future”: Informalism: The sheer inability of economic growth, as […]

Armscor and the Ministry of Defence are at loggerheads over a consignment of weapons allegedly destined for civil war-torn Yemen. Eddie Koch and Paul Stober investigate ARMSCOR and Defence Minister Joe Modise are caught in a growing storm over allegations that South Africa sent a large consignment of AK-47 assault rifles to Yemen in contravention […]

Annie Mapoma MILLIONS of South Africans have taken the chance of winning big money for the cost of two or three rands since organised lotteries began two years ago, generating more than R80-million for welfare trusts and even bigger profits for the lottery companies themselves. The popularity of the lotteries has led to the launching […]

Toyota South Africa’s founder was an unlikely motor mogul. Reg Rumney reviews a new book about the company he founded THE real truth behind the management philosophy that spurred the Japanese economic miracle is “the last fart of the ferret”, according to the man who started it all. This fascinating fact is disclosed in a […]

The king has severed ties with his `keeper’, but the battle for control will be put to the test on Shaka Day, reports Farouk Chothia AS Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini paced in the courtyard of the Enyokeni kraal after his Monday indaba with President Nelson Mandela and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, he turned to princes […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IN THE aftermath of Mike Proctor’s departure as coach of the national cricket team, there have been a number of decisive moves on one hand and some dithering on the other. The old warhorse, Clive Rice, was effectively ruled out of any possible confrontations with captain Kepler Wessels, by being named as […]

Arts Alive visitor Salif Keita had to shrug off his noble ancestry to pursue his first love: music. He spoke to Bafana Khumalo AFTER reading reams of interviews and profiles of Salif Keita in the American press, one could be forgiven for expecting him to be a 10-foot warrior god. In most of what has […]

Jacques Magliolo COCA-COLA International will be back in South Africa before the end of this year, say the experts ahead of Coke’s planned Friday press announcement and following rumours that Coke Group president for Africa Karl Weir has been seen in South Africa. Though a press conference has been called for Friday, little information has […]

MIKE PROCTER lost his job as the South African team cricket coach last weekend because he had failed to rekindle South Africa’s famed fighting spirit on the recent tour to England, according to Krish Mackerdhuj. The side ended up losing the third Test, as well as the two one-day internationals, and was humiliated by Holland […]