Matthew Krouse Down the tube `No politicians behind desks and no talking heads,” promise the producers of Real Lives, e.tv’s new 13-part documentary series aired on Wednesdays at 9pm. The first two episodes, now shown, have indeed been free of laboured political invective and emotional commentary – proving what light relief a non-judgmental approach to […]
KALAHARI Express Airlines, grounded by a host of problems since being granted an operating licence in 1996, now appears set to take off. KEA, to be operated jointly by Air Namibia and South African Airways’ sister airline, South African Express, is expected to start daily flights between Windhoek, Johannesburg and Cape Town before July 1999. […]
GHANA, Morocco and Nigeria have applied to host the 2000 Nations Cup, the Confederation of African Football said on Friday. They will compete with original hosts Zimbabwe for the right to stage the 16-nation tournament from January 23 to February 13. The successful candidate will be named on Monday when CAF executives meet in Guinea. […]
South Africa needs more stringent legislation on genetically modified organisms, argue Mariam Mayet and Saliem Fakir Products which contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are slowly filtering into South Africa. If they’re not planted in maize fields, you can be pretty sure they are in your canned soybeans, milk powder and tomato sauce. In this country […]
Michael Metelits The bad news is that your bank could hit a spot of trouble, run low on cash, find itself with too many people in line to draw funds, and collapse, leaving you with high blood pressure and a chequebook best used for gift-wrapping or reminder notes. Worse news would be that your bank […]
`Le Vive? Le … something like that. Does it mean anything to you?” “Le Vive? La Veuve, perhaps? You say it has something to do with nuns?” “I think they’re nuns. They don’t speak English, so I wasn’t too sure what they were talking about.” The setting is Ouagadougou by night. We’re driving around in […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” So said award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard who, together with Marc Norman, penned the faultless script for Shakespeare in Love. If they don’t get an Oscar nod for […]
Arthur Koestler raped novelist Jill Craigie. Now novelist Frederic Raphael says it was her own fault. Libby Brooks and Stephen Moss report Jill Craigie wraps her red wool-covered arms around the modern plastic kettle as it boils, to muffle or draw heat from it one isn’t quite sure. She eyes her garden through the long, […]
One of South Africa’s most under-resourced hospitals has been named as the research base of a new Aids drug. David Shapshak, Evidence wa ka Ngobeni and Aaron Nicodemus report Ga-Rankuwa is an unlikely place for an Aids breakthrough. The dusty, dishevelled hospital outside Pretoria has been almost abandoned by the health system, leaving it critically […]
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, […]