BRIEF: SA’s artists fight back
Artists say the industry was badly funded even before Covid-19.
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BRIEF: SO-NA, So good
In case you missed it, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation address last week covered the basics, but didn’t inspire enough confidence. It’s the same old story: good ideas and goodwill for Ramaphosa, but a faction-riven governing party and bloated cabinet getting in the way. As Business Day’s Carol Paton points out: “What is needed is …
BRIEF: Electric cars and bitcoin? Not so fast
Into saving the environment but not keen to pay in Rands? You can now buy electric cars made by Elon Musk’s Tesla with Bitcoin. But if you’re really into saving the environment, that’s probably not the smartest thing to do. Bitcoin, despite having no physical presence, is a huge electricity guzzler given the amount of …
BRIEF: Euphonik/Fresh story puts rape culture in the spotlight
Popular DJs, Fresh and Euphonik, will not be going on trial after allegations of sexual assault were levelled against them. The National Prosecuting Authority announced this week that it had decided not to prosecute the DJs, who were sacked from Primedia Broadcasting following the allegations. In a statement, the pair said they had been exonerated. …
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BRIEFS: Jacques Pauw’s fake news is bad for journalism
“Write drunk, edit sober,” was the mantra of the great writer Ernest Hemingway. One South African journalist took this a little too far this week, causing huge damage to the journalism industry. Jacques Pauw wrote a piece for the Daily Maverick documenting his own arrest, claiming it was for not paying his bill at a Cape Town …
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