aRonald Bergen on the life and films of Stanley Kubrick, the enigmatic and reclusive director who died recently aged 70 Over his 40-year career, the director Stanley Kubrick made only 13 feature films, yet the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his extremely slow method of working, the years of planning, the secrecy, […]
THE South African relief mission to flooded areas of Mozambique is proceeding, with two Oryx helicopters flying emergency supplies to Maimelane and Inhassorro. Assistance from a Japanese aid organisation was anticipated from Thursday night while the Red Cross and other organisations are already on the scene. They are working to pre-empt famine after the destruction […]
Imagine you’re a Parisienne and morning by morning, as you sit on your balcony sipping cappuccino, you notice that the Eiffel Tower is slowly getting shorter. One morning you almost swallow your croissant whole when you discover that it’s no longer there. It’s been dismantled and no longer exists. The city’s signature has become memory. […]
FRANCE said on Thursday it expects Libyan leaders to uphold the life sentences handed down here against six Libyan agents for the 1989 mid-air bombing of a French UTA airliner that killed 170 people. “Libya has to uphold the verdict in line with pledges it made, notably in a letter by Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi […]
Chris McGreal in Lagos Of all the mysteries surrounding the capture of the Lagos “man-eater”, the fate of the missing heads is the most disturbing. Clifford Orji was caught frying up human feet and ribs for breakfast under a city flyover. Severed hands lay about the place. There was even a policeman’s helmet resting on […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer It is unfortunate that at a time when South African soccer should be presenting a united front to the world, cracks are appearing in relations between the national association and its professional wing. Premier Soccer League (PSL) chief executive Joe Ndhlela last week requested that referee Petros Mathabela be barred after the […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby I have heard that during his heyday PW Botha was something of an enema freak. Before stressful occasions like making important speeches, blustering his way through Broederbond meetings, helicopter big-game shooting expeditions and so on, the Great Crocodile used to enjoy having a bucket of warm soapy water pumped up his […]
Charlene Smith King Carl Gustaf of Sweden this week knighted long-time anti-apartheid activist Horst Kleinschmidt with the Order of the Polar Star, Sweden’s highest award for foreigners. Sweden became the first government to acknowledge the incredible work over five decades of the organisation International Defence and Aid Fund (Idaf), which Kleinschmidt headed from 1979 until […]
Barbara Ludman MRS EINSTEIN by Anna McGrail (Anchor) A daughter was born to Mileva Maric and fellow student Albert Einstein a year before they were married. Baby Lieserl was given up for adoption in her mother’s village in southern Hungary so that the great man’s studies would not be disturbed. The two sons born after […]
BRITAIN on Thursday denied that five of its officials who were told to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo are spies. London said the men had been working on contingency planning for a possible evacuation of its embassy in the capital, Kinshasa. “These people were not spies. Their purpose was wholly innocent and we […]