The Bush administration was accused on Monday of trying to roll back efforts to improve the status of the world’s women by demanding that the United Nations publicly renounce abortion rights. The US’s demand overshadowed the opening on Monday of a conference intended to mark the 10th anniversary of the Beijing conference on the status of women.
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma and Schabir Shaik bluffed former president Nelson Mandela to ensure that he did not withhold financial assistance to Zuma, the Durban High Court heard on Monday.
The Pope began to receive physiotherapy on Monday to help him breathe and speak as doubts persisted over how effectively he will be able to communicate in future. There were also signs of an intense debate among senior church figures over how long the Pope should stay in hospital.
Scores of chairs lined the rooms and corridors, and jugs of coffee and water and trays of figs were ready to welcome men paying their respects. But the family of Abdullah Badran, the 21-year-old who blew himself up at the entrance to a Tel Aviv night club on Friday, killing five Israelis, were left alone in their grief.
African media group Primedia on Tuesday reported a 34,4% increase in headline earnings per share for the six months ended in December 2004 to 43 cents from 32 cents a year earlier. The group increased its interim distribution per share by 40,1% to 22 cents from 15,7 cents a year ago.
Last year’s results out of Johncom and Naspers were excellent, providing the strongest evidence possible that local media has emerged from the doldrums. Kirsty Laschinger compares the performance of these South African giants.
In a groundbreaking move, the SABC now offers a TV news bulletin specifically designed for children. Ida Jooste looks into the production values behind the concept and gets some feedback from the target audience.
Are youth magazines finally coming of age? Tim Spira looks at a fickle and fast-changing market, where the only trend that’s constant is the steady climb in copy sales.
With specialist magazines covering everything from needlepoint to darts, David Bullard can’t help but marvel at the dedication of some of the more obscure publishers
In their judgement on the Radio Today matter, the BMCC passed up the opportunity to set clear precedent. Greg Hamburger expands on the implications for community radio licensing.