Wed, 08 Feb 2012

Is it an eagle? Is it a birdie? Yes, it's both! Or at least it will be on next Thursday, 16 February at the Screen Africa Golf Day in Johannesburg.

For one glorious day, broadcasters, te...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012

QUESTION: Dear Auntie Scaffie

I am deeply, deeply upset and require serious counselling. I have just read in all the newspapers and on the Internet that no matric or qualifications or p...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012

Those attending South African Minister of Communications Dina Pule’s first engagement with the media (held on 24 January in Pretoria) since her appointment three months ago might have expected t...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012
Who would want to be in the designer footware of Lulama Mokhobo? She must be one mighty brave woman to agree to take over the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), probably the most troubl...
Wed, 11 Jan 2012
Nothing has been heard about South Africa’s long-standing pending migration from analogue broadcasting to digital terrestrial television (DTT) since former Minister of Communications Roy Padayachie ...
Wed, 14 Dec 2011
If you watched the SABC news coverage of the COP 17 Climate Change Conference last Thursday, you would have seen a very different version of what was, as per a camera veritι recording by someone on ...
Wed, 07 Dec 2011
In South Africa we’ve just seen a consummate example of how to gain maximum exposure for a product: create a TV commercial that pokes fun at one living dictator and five deceased ones, raise the ir...
Wed, 30 Nov 2011
So here we are, living in a country where the right of access to information has been right royally clamped by the government and where it’s been necessary (again) to take to the streets and protest...