AVIS Southern Africa announced on Thursday that it has agreed in principle to acquire the Avis car rental operations in Norway and Sweden as part of a geographical expansion strategy. At the same time, it announced it has lifted headline earnings per share by 24% to 73,3 cents for the year to March. The group […]
ANGOLAN troops mounted an attack on Zambian soldiers in April, but only in an effort to defend their territory from an incursion by Zambian forces, the Angolan embassy in Lusaka said on Thursday. A group of 24 Zambian soldiers crossed the frontier into its western neighbour on April 27 and engaged in a gunfight with […]
Bugs have become the new cadets in the crime war as forensic entomology provides crucial evidence in court.
OWN CORRESPONDENT , Washington | Friday 9.00am. UNITED States President Bill Clinton called the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea ”senseless” and urged them to back down from armed confrontation. The two Horn of Africa nations, Ethiopia and Eritrea first came to blows two years ago when a dispute over border territory erupted into a […]
EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. US equity markets and local currency blues should continue setting the pace for the South African stock market next week with portfolio managers bracing for further volatility. Portfolio managers said although local equities looked relatively cheap following recent losses and a depreciating rand, investors were slow to take the […]
MIRIAM ISA, Pretoria | Friday 5.00pm. THE Reserve Bank left interest rates unchanged after its regular six-weekly meeting on Friday, but said it would not hesitate to tighten monetary policy if inflation continued to rise. ”The Monetary Policy Committee has decided to maintain its current policy stance,” the committee said in a statement released after […]
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Ridley Scott’s Roman epic, Gladiator, is a spectacular adventure movie, but it’s more than a homage to Hollywood’s past. Mark Morris says its real triumph is to reinvent a forgotten genre using visual verve and technical wizardry.
<b>Review: Bringing Out the Dead</b>
Twenty-five years after collaborating on Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader are together again with Bringing Out the Dead. Mark Morris welcomes back America’s greatest film-making duo.