Five boys have died in the Eastern Cape since last week, the start of the circumcision period in that province, the provincial health department said on Saturday. The fifth body was picked up by the police at an initiation school late on Saturday, said Sizwe Kupelo, departmental spokesperson.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Julian Fellowes’ Separate Lies is reasonably gripping; it keeps twisting and turning as each character is slowly eviscerated, writes Shaun de Waal.
Shaun de Waal experiences the buzz at the highly successful first Cape Town Book Fair.
The location of Alyn Hospital on the outskirts of Jerusalem is so idyllic it could be out of the famous tale, Heidi. Nestled on a hilltop enclosed in pine-groves and wild daffodils, the sound of birdsong and children’s giggles allow one momentarily to forget the reality inside the hospital’s walls — the damaged and deformed children who are its patients.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The King is mesmerisingly watchable, despite the occasional desire to avert one’s eyes, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Woody Allen’s latest offering <i>Match Point</i> is a bleak little movie, unrelieved by warmth or humour, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> From the director of <i>American Pie</i>, <i>American Dreamz</i> has enough intelligence embedded in its concept and script to lift it above the level of mere gross-out, writes Shaun de Waal.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: South Korean Kim Ki-Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring certainly has a meditative tone, though there are eruptions — and a certain dark humour, too, writes
Shaun de Waal.
A new book picks apart the mythology of Shaka, but is also an absorbing picture of his times, writes Shaun de Waal.
Shaun de Waal looks into the various controversies that have erupted around the movie version of Arthur Golden’s bestselling novel.