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If there is one issue that has been in the spotlight for the past weeks and months, if not years, it’s the debacle at the SABC. We’ve had the Full Monty, from trips overseas to board meetings in luxury hotels to board members resigning in droves to a leader who apparently ‘sucks’ as a leader [...]

Today Dr Nikolaus Eberl asks if hotel greed will kill South Africa’s tourism brand beyond 2010 and wonders whether SA will take the high road - using 2010 as a foundation on which to build tourism in the future, or the low road, which will virtually guarantee that the industry will be hammered. He paints [...]

Just to prove that we can do as well in the world’s advertising arena as we can in hosting sports events, our agencies have done us more than proud at Cannes this year. TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg’s Trillion Dollar Campaign for The Zimbabwean brought home an Outdoor Grand Prix and heads the SA winners’ list with nine [...]

Time and again, industry commentators have made the point that the South African advertising industry punches well above its weight. Our industry is smaller than those in many other countries, and yet we give them a run for their money in our creativity and quality of production - and that is across just about every [...]

The five remaining SABC board members appear to be intent on hanging on to the bitter end. The question is: Why?
The board was apparently asked by the minister of communications, Siphiwe Nyanda, to do the honourable thing and resign, and if last week’s resignations were anything to go by at least four members complied. It [...]

The short answer is: a great deal.
Peter Vundla, who resigned from the SABC board back in May, took the opportunity following Khanyi Mkhonza’s resignation on Thursday last week to say what he reckons is wrong with the SABC. Among the mildest things he says is his opinion that the broadcaster is like an employment agency; [...]

Last Thursday, 28 May 2008, according to the Mail &Guardian Online, SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said that the corporation viewed the news site’s posting of the uncut version of the so-called Zapiro show on its website as “unprofessional” and that the posting had undermined the public broadcaster. Today, Chris Moerdyk poses the question SABC vs [...]