With <i>Tsotsi</i> holding gold, the challenges facing the film industry are to build profit and put bums in seats, writes Sulona Reddy.
In an edited extract of an interview with Matthew Krouse, Out in Africa film festival director Nodi Murphy speaks about the hazards of programming gay, lesbian and transgender content.
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There was still no agreement by late on Friday afternoon over who will govern Cape Town. Talks between political parties were set to take place over the weekend in a bid to reach a settlement. ”We are waiting on various parties to get back to us on a variety of options and proposals,” said Ryan Coetzee of the Democratic Alliance.
Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe said on Friday he has no reason to complain about the manner in which police searched for his murdered four-year-old granddaughter Makgabo Matlala. ”I am not in a position to comment on whether they did what they were supposed to,” Ngoepe said.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is due to arrive in South Africa on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he took the post at the helm of the world body in 1997. Annan is scheduled to address the national Assembly, during which he is expected to make a key statement on his tenure as secretary general.
MOVIE OF THE YEAR: So much has already been written about Brokeback Mountain that it’s hard to know what else to say. One must, though, clear up a small misunderstanding. The movie is said to be about “gay cowboys”, and that’s not quite right. First, they are not gay as such. Yes, they do gay […]
In his debut novel, <i>The Native Commissioner </i>, Shaun Johnson shows us the corrosive and evil side of apartheid, but without bashing us over the head with the obvious, writes Anthony Egan.
Chad’s government on Friday accused pro-government Sudanese militia of carrying out new cross-border raids into the east in ”flagrant violation” of a peace agreement. At the end of 2005, Chad’s government accused Sudan of trying to ”destabilise” it with cross-border raids, and declared itself to be in a ”state of belligerence” with Khartoum.
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Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser was treated at a mental institution in Zimbabwe after her father died, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Friday. The woman’s mother testified that her daughter ”had experienced many difficulties”.
Sifiso Mamba wades through his dense, waist-high maize, uprooting every second stalk. He planted during a time of optimism over expected rains in Swaziland, but is now being forced to destroy part of his crop to save the rest. He farms on communal land in Lavumisa, about 10km from the South African border in southern Swaziland.