Andrew Worsdale picks his Oscar winners – and those the academy is likely to choose The race for the golden statuette is very interesting this year: more independently financed films than ever before and a foreign film nominated both as best picture and best foreign film – one of only three times. Roberto Benigni’s Life […]
THE government will deploy three “mobile forces” in volatile KwaZulu-Natal to snuff out political violence threatening the June 2 elections. Police Divisional Commissioner Andre Pruis said on Thursday that forces combining police, soldiers and intelligence operatives will be deployed from April 1. Pruis, who declined to state the size of what he described as “mobile […]
THE European Union on Friday hailed an agreement by central African heads of state on the conservation and management of the region’s tropical forests. The heads of state of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Chad, along with the vice-president of Gabon and Congo’s environment minister on Wednesday signed the Yaounde Declaration agreeing […]
Neil Manthorp in Wellington Cricket It would be pretty funny if New Zealand won the third Test, don’t you think? Unlike the Rocky scripts that have the battered, bloodied hero dragging himself off his knees and onward to last-gasp, savage victory, this plot would have a dribbly- nosed, 50kg bookworm slapping the bully into submission […]
Be thorough when checking up on anyone who’s telling you where to invest your money, warns Donna Block When it comes to choosing someone to help you make head or tail of your investments there is one guiding principle: caveat emptor – buyer beware. No matter how smooth or sophisticated that person may be, the […]
AT least 40 people were killed and 70 were wounded in a battle early on Friday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, between militiamen of warlord Musa Sudi Yalahow and gunmen loyal to Mogadishu Governor Hussein Ali Ahmed. The fighting has been between Yalahow’s Da’ud militiamen, supporting the governor — all belonging to the larger Abgal […]
Ivor Powell Faced with recent opinion polls which suggest it could lose its KwaZulu-Natal heartland to the African National Congress in the June elections, the Inkatha Freedom Party is pursuing a double strategy. On one hand, its election manifesto makes it clear the IFP is looking to promote itself as a national party – rather […]
John Campbell The idea that each individual owns and controls his or her property lies at the very foundation of most (perhaps, all) societies. However useful the concept is at an ideological level, it is a notion that is increasingly less appropriate to describe property rights as the 20th century advances into the 21st. One […]
Loose cannon : Robert Kirby In a quick-draw response to an opinion expressed in this column some four weeks ago, Anita Kleinsmidt of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies – hereinafter referred to as “Cals” – dances intrepidly to the defence of the rights of nannies – hereinafter referred to as “childminders”. In the column […]
THE United States government announced on Thursday that it will construct a new embassy in Nairobi to replace the previous one, which was destroyed by a powerful bomb blast on August 7 1998. The US said the demolition of the old embassy building starts on March 22 to pave way for the transformation of the […]