ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has appealed for calm when discussing the ANC's proposed media tribunal and not go on the offensive.
On the contrary we all should, whether we are in and of the news media or not, forcefully resist this attempt...
For the sake of all that's sensible, can we stop reporting that South Africa has the greatest level of inequality in the world?
It has become South Africa's biggest cliché, and it crops up in many stories written about the country, even one as b...
I am echoing the old debate where Eugene Terre'blanche referred to a statue of Chief Tshwane as an "apie". For the record, I do not think he is ape-like at all (Jacob, not Eugene; I find Eugene slightly simian). I actually do not even wish to talk ex...
Ad revenues are plummeting, which should see a rise in shorter, pithier, more imaginative advertising -- but we’re not and it’s because the money-people at companies have stopped listening to the creatives.
The financial crisis is seeing every...
Our eyes and ears are attentive to the mainstream media as the most influential platform in the coming elections. But it's also important that there are also many other smaller players adding to the diversity of coverage.
Some of these enterpr...
As an antidote to the pessimism infusing the business news as the global financial crisis plays itself out, I can recommend a gem of a book published last year by the former president of the Coca Cola Company, Donald Keough.
The book is The Ten Co...
For those prepared to listen, it was a mini-lecture on monetary policy. And more entertaining than lectures on monetary policy tend to be.
The occasion was the press conference the Reserve Bank governor gives to explain the reasons for decisions o...
South Africa lost one of its greatest investigative journalists and a fine thinker when Deon Basson died this week.
What endeared him to me, aside from my admiration of his understanding of insurance companies and the determination that made him o...
That Team South Africa has subjected the nation to pitiful performance at the 2008 Olympic Games is a major understatement. I was listening a day ago to caller after caller on one talk radio station justifying the poor performance of these athletes t...
To listen to Jacaranda 94.2 is to step back and across into an alternate dimension -- one where the soundtrack is pure eighties pop. Bizarre. George Michael, Sheena Easton, Marc Alex, Billy Idol ... And then there's Just Plain Darren, erstwhile Super...
