Shaun de Waal British movie of the week Since the Sixties, left-wing director Ken Loach has focused on working-class life in Britain, using an uncompromising style of social realism to do it. He often uses non-actors, and he won’t let his cast see the whole script beforehand – instead, he gives it to them piecemeal […]
The most recent novel by Justin Cartwright -once a Wits rugby player -won the Whitbread Prize. He spoke to Nicholas Dawes `I was the Peter Mandelson of my era,” says Justin Cartwright of his years as spin- doctor-in-chief to Britain’s Liberal- Democratic party. He’s joking, of course, but then the Lib-Dems did slip rather rapidly […]
Review of the week Brenda Atkinson I used to do my laundry on 4th Avenue in Parkhurst, at a laundromat that boasted original Seventies signage and an enormous ginger cat that would warm itself on the tumble dryers. At the time, 4th Avenue featured in my mental suburban inventory as an antique shop strip for […]
Andrew Benson Motor Racing Michael Schumacher broke his right leg last weekend at the British Grand Prix in exactly the kind of accident drivers have been warning the sport’s authorities about for some time. The German’s head-on impact with a wall highlighted just how inefficient the gravel traps used to slow out-of-control cars can be […]
KENYA’S Fred Kiprop won the Gold Coast marathon for the second straight year on Sunday. Kiprop, 26, broke away from the leading pack of runners at the 34-km (21-mile) mark and won in a time of 2 hours 14 minutes 02 seconds on Australia’s Gold Coast tourist strip. The time was well off the 2:11.00 […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube Late-night programming took a strange turn last weekend with the showing of two pilot sessions of the new Dead Time slot on e.tv. The bizarre content of the proposed late- night station erupted in a blaze of glory in the wee hours of Saturday July 10 and Sunday July 11. […]
system … Aaron Nicodemus gives South Africa’s health care system a check-up and finds that on the whole the major surgery performed on the system has been successful – except for the Aids policy Five years ago Hellen Mailula (30) of Pietersburg would not have had her baby in a hospital. As part of the […]
Rowan Callaghan The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is eagerly awaiting the launch of its first electronic share settlement system on July 30 this year. It is hoping that Share Transactions Totally Electronic (Strate) will help repair the damage caused by a notoriously inefficient settlement system and boost investor confidence. Although paper share certificates should remain […]
Shaun de Waal American movie of the week Playwright Neil LaBute’s first film, In the Company of Men (never released theatrically in South Africa, but now on video) is a nasty tale of twisted games- playing. It is driven by the character of an amoral man seeking revenge on womanhood in general, and picking on […]
Jacques Rautenbach Product: Acer TravelMate 330T Price: R18 995 With so much new kit having entered the technology market over the past year, one tends to start feeling a little blas about new products. Things don’t seem to be changing radically enough to impress. But every now and then you come across a real gem […]