Some big-name media professionals have recently taken to blogging. Matthew Buckland reports.
Local media planners wary of online advertising should consider emigrating to Afghanistan where the pace of technology will be slow enough for them, writes Matthew Buckland.
A self-proclaimed communist who became an idol of the opposition, the "bourgeois" media and global capital institutions, has ended up in conflict with the government she represented. This is how one can sum up the three-year period of Nozizwe ÂMadlala-Routledge as the deputy minister of health, which ended last week, writes Sibani Mngadi.
Several radio stations have given their drive-time shows a shake-up as the national average of time spent listening to radio drops. Matebello Motloung reports.
A well-known research company is contemplating a study that looks into the similarities between blacks and Afrikaners, which are many, according to Matebello Motloung. She touches on some she’s picked up over the years.
Fred Khumalo reminisces about the good old days of typewriters and wonders he should bow to pressure to start his own blog. <
<i>City Press</i> editor Mathatha Tsedu’s vision of creating a "distinctly African" newspaper is finally paying off. For the first time in four years, it sold more than 200,000 copies. Matebello Motloung asks him why this strategy failed with the <i>Sunday Times</i> and where he is taking his newspaper.
Once the ugly duckling of the magazine industry, custom publishing has given itself a make-over to become a more competitive – and prettier – player. Fienie Grobler tracks the growth of the local industry against international trends.
Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha confirmed on Wednesday that he had handed over a R500 000 donation to South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande. ”I am willing to go to the courts to prove that indeed this did happen,” Madisha said.
Financial markets the world over are once again in turmoil. The successive international financial crises of the 1990s, and of 2001, demonstrated that we live in an age of volatility. These events prompted emerging market economies to work hard to improve their national balance sheets by adjusting their fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies, and to promote economic diversification, writes Lesetja Kganyago.