
All eyeballs stop at numbers
I’m a words person, not a numbers person, and yet I’ve seen how the strategic inclusion of numbers makes the copy that I write and the training that I offer that much more powerful.

I’m a words person, not a numbers person, and yet I’ve seen how the strategic inclusion of numbers makes the copy that I write and the training that I offer that much more powerful.

While many South African companies embarked on unique campaigns during hard lockdown and the subsequent levels of Covid-19 in South Africa, some went to creative and extraordinary measures to assist communities affected by the invisible novel virus.

Reality TV leaves Bachelor with “mental issues”. Motoring scribes go the extra mile and AB de Villiers earns his keep… it’s A Weak in the News.

Yes, there are mainstream media stories about national events, but the real heartbeat of a country takes place in its cities, towns and villages. In order to highlight the real concerns of ordinary people, The Chronicle brings you a compendium of ‘local’ news from around the country.

I was all set to pen a scathing indictment of mission and vision statements; items I occasionally refuse to write for my clients unless doing so culminates in a refusal to pay me. I hate them. And I’m not shy to say so.

Yes, there are mainstream media stories about national events, but the real heartbeat of a country takes place in its cities, towns and villages. In order to highlight the real concerns of ordinary people, The Chronicle brings you a compendium of ‘local’ news from around the country.

It’s like the man from Queens is taking lessons from the man from Nkandla. Plus Indy hacks irk Eskom, Cosatu sings an old tune and Eastern Cape plagiarists go Down Under.

Putin telegraphs sick-as-parrot fellow prez. Pitso gaps it to the land of the Pharos and more quotes of the week from A Weak in the News/

Yes, there are mainstream media stories about national events, but the real heartbeat of a country takes place in its cities, towns and villages. In order to highlight the real concerns of ordinary people, The Chronicle brings you a compendium of ‘local’ news from around the country.

TV star turned president turns on fellow thesp. Zim junket pales next to corporate greed. And Spring(s) has sprung again… It’s been another memorable Weak in the News.