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Akkers en Aikônas
AIKôNA! Kenia en Nigerië is klaarblyklik dieselfde plek, of só meen Die Burger (1 Julie) wat prof. Ajibabi Omotoso, skrywer van onder meer Season of migration to the South en tans lektor aan UWK, summier ’n nuwe geboorteland gegee het. Prof. Omotoso, alias die draadwindmeulverkoper in die advertensie van ’n selfoonnetwerk waarin ’n ryk Johannesburger uitoorlê word, kom van Nigerië. Die Burger het twéé keer in die slaggat geval deur op die voorblad en in die berig op bladsy 7 na hom as ’n Keniaan te verwys.
AIKôNA! Another geographical blunder was made by CNN. After the opening game between South Africa and Australia in the Rugby World Cup Series, it was broadcasted that Newlands is in Johannesburg... And on August 22, the SABC’s morning news bulletin stated Carolina and Hendrina in Mpumalanga were north of Pretoria!
An ACORN for the Mail & Guardian for keeping politicians on their toes. After sending the Ministers a letter on June 26, it tested the speediness of their replies. Full marks for perseverance were given to Roger Jardine, Director General of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. After his original response was hijacked with his car, his second attempt was still received long before others.
AIKôNA! Apparently a paid for luxury cruise on the QE2 doesn’t count as a freebie. A short while after the editor of The Star, Peter Sullivan, made a big spiel condemning freebies in a column (The Star International Weekly, June 8 - 14), he went on a free trip from London to NY. As Krisjan Lemmer of the Mail & Guardian (August 4 - 10) so aptly put it: "Sullivan’s holiday was clearly a noble attempt to keep his editorial staff free of corruption."
An ACORN for Fine Music Radio, the independent community radio station that has made big classical and jazz waves in the Cape Peninsula since July 1. For the first time people can listen to connoisseur music 24 hours a day. FMR received about 300 congratulatory calls daily during their first month on air and within seven weeks 700 people joined the FMR Association (at an annual cost of R120). That is tuned-in!
AIKôNA! The Argus stumbled terribly over their own feet by printing a misleading headline (August 28): Chester to have brain scan after trampling. Williams had to have a brain scan, not because Small tramped on his back, but because he had been knocked unconscious just before the incident during a recent Currie Cup match.
AIKôNA! Die reeks oor Die Vrou se Rol in Films in Vrouefokus op Afrikaans Stereo was geen ontleding van die onderwerp nie, maar eerder ’n oppervlakkige aflees van die stories van flieke deur vryskutaanbieder, Amanda du Preez. Sy begaan dieselfde fout as soveel resensente in die media wat bloot aan luisteraars en lesers die verhale heropdis. Jeanette Geldenhuys pleeg ook dié sonde in Stroomaf op Afrikaans Stereo met haar uiters vlak (aflees)menings oor nuwe videovrystellings.
’n AKKER vir Kalender in Beeld vir die wyse waarop die gebitch tussen Joan Hambidge en Riana Scheepers beëindig is. Oor ’n tydperk van byna vier weke het die wedersydse rapiere wat getrek is weereens die lae vlak van debatvoering en professionele jaloesie in die Afrikaanse letterkundewêreld blootgelê. As Hambidge en Scheepers maar Augustinus se wyse woorde, ad securae taciturnitatis portum, in ag wil neem.
AIKôNA! Politicians might be overgrown infants (according to Pink Floyd), but even infants will know for which party they stand. Sowetan political reporter Pamela Dube made a big boo-boo (June 21) by referring to Frances Kendall as the leader of the Women’s Rights Party. She was leader of the Federal Party in the 1994 general elections.
AIKôNA! Twenty Grahamstown principals rightly pointed fingers at the Sunday Times, accusing it of the cheapest kind of press sensationalism, when it published a picture of two East London schoolboys (August 6) making rude hand gestures. This was after the Supreme Court had ordered their reinstatement at Hudson Park High School, following an alleged drinking spree. We agree, zap to you too.
’n AKKER aan Ses-op-Een (SAUK) vir die goeie onderhoud op 6 Junie met Pieter Hendriks. Dit was in reaksie op die provinsialistiese opmerking van die oud-WP Springbok en wynmaker, Jan Boland Coetzee, dat die arrogansie van die Transvaalse Springbokke die geveg teen Kanada in die Wêreldbeker veroorsaak het. Hendriks het in die onderhoud die land om verskoning gevra.
’n AKKER ook aan Vryburger van Die Burger wat verby sy streeksbelange gekyk het om Jan Boland Coetzee ná sy uitspraak te repudieer.
AIKôNA! Ses-op-Een het egter ’n paar dae later sy akker laat vrot met ’n stuk powere joernalistiek. Susan Beyers, beter bekend vir haar spel as TV-aktrise, gaan praat met Coetzee op sy plaas oor sy kontroversiële uitspraak. In die wynkelder swig sy egter voor sy Vriesenhofwyne, vra ’n paar oppervlakkige vrae wat hy maklik ontwyk en drink dan liewer ’n heildronk op Dok Craven!
An ACORN for Noseweek’s continuing exposés of the iniquities in the South African community, this time opening the can of worms of the Cape Law Society’s cover-up of the bribery activities of its members at the Deeds Office. The editor, Martin Welz, seems to be the only real investigative reporter left in this country where muckraking has become a swear word in journalism.
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