Andy Capostagno rugby ‘Well, so much for South African teams helping each other in the Super 12. That lasted about five minutes. Still, at least two South African teams won this week.” The wise words belong to South African Rugby Football Union CEO Rian Oberholzer. He was speaking at a function in Randburg where Springbok […]
Helena Sheehan crossfire Reading ”The global revival of the left” (February 16 to 22) by Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane, I thought: ”This is where I came in.” I was part of the 1960s ”new left” who believed that we understood the world anew and would turn it upside down. We would push aside the […]
Stepping outside their commercial work, eight fashion photographers took time out to play Suzy Bell Cow porn, egg-yolk innocence, Christian evangelism, silent landscapes, grotesque beauty and a three-legged dog … Fidelity is a thematically chaotic exhibition, but what else can you expect when a bunch of photographers are told to create whatever turns them on? […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S opposition alliance led by the former rebel Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) disrupted parliamentary proceedings for the second day in a row after losing a vote relating to the immunity of three opposition members. The 117 opposition deputies protested in their traditional way – chanting anti-government slogans such as ”you stole our votes” and banging […]
AFGHANISTAN’S ruling Taliban has fired mortars and cannon at the world-famous, rock-hewn Buddhas at Bamiyan in defiance of international protests, sources said. A day after the radical Islamic movement announced it had begun destroying all statues in the 90% of Afghanistan it controls, an Afghan news agency also said the Taliban were also assembling explosives […]
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The two Hollywood stars have launched a competition which will provide the winning film-maker with a m budget to make their first movie.
A SCHOOLBOY has been jailed for eight years for setting alight an agricultural college in Mpumalanga. Sicelo Mthembu, 18, of Vosloorus in Gauteng, was in Grade 8 at Mathews Phosa College near Nelspruit when he set the school on fire after the college director reprimanded him in the dining hall for misbehaving. The school lost […]
ASSAAD ABBOUD, Cairo | Thursday AN Egyptian court has sentenced a Saudi princess to three years’ hard labour in her absence on for a million-dollar jewel theft, in yet another brush with the law for her Cairo-based family. Central Cairo’s Abul Ela correctional court announced that it had also handed three years’ hard labour to […]
THE US Export-Import Bank is ready to provide up to $250m in loans, guarantees and insurance to help Ghana acquire US-made medicine and equipment to combat HIV and AIDS. The agreement is part of a S1bn Ex-Im Bank program established last July to back Africa’s fight against HIV/AIDS. Ghanaian Health Minister Dr Richard Anane, who […]