Rosamund Handler, author of <i>Madlands</i>, talks about the novel, the purpose of fiction and the things that inspire her.
The fourth <i>Mamba Comix</i> is bigger, glossier and in full colour, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Loud-mouthed Mzekezeke tells Sylvester Haskins about his forthcoming plans to market gum, juice and a hooded doll.
Historian Jeremy Krikler provides an in-depth account of the white miners’ revolt and subsequent racial killings in 1922, writes Anthony Egan.
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Zambian police were never asked to probe allegations of the rape of Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser when she was a teenager because the ANC in exile sorted out its own problems, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Friday. ”Unless if somebody was killed — then the government of Zambia would be involved. ”
Zimbabwe’s 12-month inflation rate jumped to a new record high of 913,6% for March, officials said on Friday, surpassing a central bank forecast as the country’s economic woes continue. "The year-on-year rate of inflation in March 2006 was 913,6%, gaining 131,6 percentage points on the February rate of 782%," said Moffat Nyoni, acting director of the Central Statistical Office.
<b>CD OF THE WEEK</b>: Prince makes his comeback after years of mediocrity, writes Alexis Petridis in London.
Somali pirates are demanding 000 for the release of a South Korean fishing vessel seized with a crew of 25 Asians this week off the coast of the lawless nation, elders said on Friday. Village elders — the traditional power base of rural Somalia — in the area near where the ship is being held said the gunmen were seeking payment of a ”fine” for illegal fishing and not a ransom.
In a bid to restore public confidence and rein in a recent crime wave, Tanzania’s national police chief on Friday ordered publication of all senior officers’ phone numbers, including his own. Inspector General Said Mwema said he hoped the move would boost communication between victims, witnesses and authorities and thus reduce crime.
Suspense was riding high on Friday as a judge in London prepared to deliver his verdict in a sensational lawsuit in which United States author Dan Brown stands accused of lifting parts of another novel to write his global best-seller The Da Vinci Code.