It’s been a good year for growth of media in the vernacular. Increased readership, growing television ownership and radio listenership in the millions are being backed by growing advertising spend, reports Paula Fray.
Local television content is more popular than ever but hidden costs and the allure of cheaper high quality international productions are slowing the industry. Kim Novick reports.
Accepting freebies is standard practice for most South African travel magazines and newspapers. Janine Stephen explores whether bucking the trend can attract new readers.
Earlier this month, the Sudanese authorities forced the Norwegian Refugee Council to discontinue its humanitarian aid operation in the war-torn region of Darfur. In the short term, the rapidly worsening crisis in Darfur will have serious humanitarian consequences for the civilian population.
She seemed to have everything a girl could ask for: a sports car, designer clothes and memberships in the most exclusive clubs in Singapore, all paid for by her doting parents. What more do you give a 19-year-old daughter? If you were the parents of Vivian (not her real name), you would give her a surgical makeover package.
Barely two weeks after meeting and assuring President Thabo Mbeki of their strength and unqualified support, the pro-Senate faction of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change is on its political death bed, analysts predict. The Mail & Guardian has been informed that 10 or more legislators in have already made known their intention to jump ship.
The number of international refugees has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, but civil wars have led to a big rise in those forced to flee their homes while staying within the boundaries of their country, according to the United Nations.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen millions of French people — students, trade unionists and pretty much any other group you care to mention — protesting on the streets against a small change in labour laws. The protests were bigger, though less violent, than last year’s riots in many of France’s poor suburbs, home to many of its immigrants.
There will be opportunities aplenty in local television in the coming years but this calls for ‘convergence’ in the industry, writes Howard Thomas.
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