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/ 13 October 2004
For the media, there’s a thin line between acting as publicity agent for a terrorist group and disseminating vital information. Prof. Tawana Kupe unpacks the danger and subtlety of these news events.
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/ 13 October 2004
In the ’70s newspapers were on a beautiful wicket, with advertisers clamouring and begging for space. Harry Herber writes that things have gotten a bit stickier since then.
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/ 13 October 2004
Two months ago, Safika deputy chairperson Saki Macozoma offered a feeble defence against charges of enrichment levelled by black people against himself and his fellow black economic empowerment oligarchs, for want of a better word, such as Patrice Motsepe, Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa. Until now, I have resisted participating in what has been a futile and sterile debate about enrichment versus empowerment.
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/ 13 October 2004
"Last week the South African Police Service issued the annual crime statistics. What these show is that, overall, the incidence of reported crime in the country is declining, indicating a reduction in the number of actual crimes committed." This is an edited version of President Thabo Mbeki’s controversial online letter, recently flighted by the ANC.
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/ 13 October 2004
Zimbabwe’s clothing manufacturers understand all too well why Asian economies are often referred to as "tigers". With feline swiftness, low-priced imports from the East have cut a swathe through the local clothing, textile and footwear market. The influx of Asian goods now ranks high on Zimbabwean manufacturers’ list of worries — which also includes triple-digit inflation, shrinking consumer demand and political instability.
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/ 13 October 2004
Two years ago this month, President Thabo Mbeki told Bekkersdal residents that he was so touched by their poverty the government would implement special measures to help them. Mbeki told about 10 000 residents: "After listening to all the issues raised, I have decided that we should make Bekkersdal a special project because it appears different from other places." Last week, a visit to the site showed only one visible sign of progress.
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/ 13 October 2004
Boxing promoter Branco Milenkovic still walks tall despite recent drug scandals involving boxers who fight under his banner. He was voted Boxing SA’s promoter of 2003 and although his image now appears to be tainted, Milenkovic dismisses these allegations. ”These doping incidents are disturbing,” he said.
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/ 13 October 2004
The publishers of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male did not expect much when the study was published in 1948. The author, Alfred C Kinsey, was a scientist highly esteemed among entomologists for his work on the gall wasp — an unsexy little bug. The Kinsey Report, as it became known, turned out to be the biggest scientific bestseller since Darwin and, like The Origin of Species, took a wrecking ball to the established moral order.
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/ 13 October 2004
Africa’s cemeteries are ”filled beyond capacity” because of the HIV/Aids pandemic. According to UNAids, an estimated 20-million Africans have died since the start of the epidemic, some 29,4-million are living with the virus and 25-million children have been orphaned. Africa’s agricultural labour force is expected to be decimated over the next 15 years, and a fifth of South Africa’s workforce could succumb.
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/ 13 October 2004
Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe have booked their place in the season-ending Masters Cup Doubles tournament in Zimbabwe. Black and Ullyett won the Nasdaq-100 Open and ATP Masters Series in Hamburg and have made the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slams in 2004.