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/ 22 November 2006
Radio is one of the most popular advertising mediums in South Africa with the unique ability to reach both illiterate, lower income groups as well as tertiary educated, high income earners. Maybe that is why advertising costs have soared since the public broadcaster sold off six radio stations in the mid-1990s, writes Fienie Grobler.
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/ 22 November 2006
Can you imagine tuning in to your favourite radio station only to hear an audio of someone being murdered? This is how two American shock jocks came to be fired in 2004. Although the situation in South Africa has not reached such tasteless proportions, Matebello Motloung looks at how our local shock jocks are kept in check, and the value they bring to their radio stations.
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/ 22 November 2006
Less than six weeks before he steps down as Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has come up with a political scorecard on the successes and failures of the UN’s much-touted development agenda. The good news is that official development assistance — from rich to poor countries — is reaching a new high.
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/ 22 November 2006
For some time now, the sporadic eruption of inter-ethnic conflict in most of Cameroon, sometimes with tragic consequences, has prompted concern about the future of this Central African country. The first notable tensions between ethnic groups date back to the beginning of the 1990s.
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/ 22 November 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) paid Leadership magazine about R123 000 for a cover story featuring its chief executive, Dali Mpofu, in the June issue, according to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri. She said the money came out of the SABC’s corporate marketing and public, international and regulatory affairs budgets.
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/ 22 November 2006
The Media magazine celebrates its fourth anniversary this month. Looking back over the past year, Fienie Grobler suggests that the Jacob Zuma saga has encompassed the entire media industry in South Africa while elsewhere cartoons came under fire.
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/ 21 November 2006
Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind M*A*S*H, Nashville and The Player, who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles hospital, his Sandcastle 5 production company said on Tuesday. He was 81.
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/ 21 November 2006
Muslim fighters on Tuesday clashed with Ethiopian forces near the seat of Somalia’s government, inflicting large numbers of casualties and destroying armoured vehicles, officials and witnesses said. The Islamists ambushed an Ethiopian convoy in Qasah-Omane, a small village about 70km south-west of Baidoa.
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/ 21 November 2006
Andy Goode will start at flyhalf for England in their second Test against South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday. Goode came off the bench last weekend to replace the injured Charlie Hodgson and kicked effectively, both out of hand and at goal, as he scored seven points in a 23-21 win over the Springboks.