upright people’ With its biennial film festival the little country of Burkina Faso plays a big role in African film-making. John Matshikiza found the `reel’ heart of Africa in Ouagadougou Give a dog a bad name and he’ll be a bad dog. Give a dog a good name, and he might just turn into a […]
Rebecca Smithers Product: JUMP AHEAD BABY knowledge adventure Requirements: PC: Windows 3.1; 8Mb Ram; Mac: System 7; 8Mb Ram I was initially sceptical about introducing my daughter Mabel to the world of computers at the tender age of 12 months. But after just half-an- hour of trying out Jump Ahead Baby, she was bashing the […]
If you knew what leaders of the different opposition parties tend to say about each other over, for example, lunch with a journalist, you too would have sat up and taken note of an event last Friday. Leaders of the New National Party, Democratic Party, Pan Africanist Congress, African Christian Democratic Party and Freedom Front […]
Mungo Soggot Several government schools are now offering students the chance to sit A level exams as confidence in South Africa’s matric qualification declines. State schools are joining the many private schools that have been providing courses for A levels for some time – usually for students planning to either study abroad or emigrate with […]
selection With the Western Stormers announcing a B team for their match down under this weekend, Andy Capostagno ponders how other sides will react Western Stormers coach Alan Solomons seems to be reinventing the traditional rules of the game on an almost daily basis. Last year, for instance, Solomons stopped releasing teams to the press […]
Ouagadougou, the capital of the tiny West African country of Burkina Faso, is also the self-styled capital of African cinema. Every two years it hosts Fespaco, the festival of films from Africa and the African diaspora. John Matshikiza, who attended for the first time this year, talks about two of his favourite films from this […]
SOUTH AFRICA will play Togo in June in the first round of the African qualifying round for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games football tournament. The draw was announced on Thursday, for the first and second legs on the weekends of June 11 to 12, and 25 to 17. Group 1: Uganda v Zambia, Nigeria v […]
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa members ended a nine-day strike at Toyota’s Durban plant on Thursday, returning to work while Numsa continues negotiations. SABC radio reports that this follows management’s threat to dismiss workers if they continue with the illegal strike. Some 1500 workers have been on strike since February 26 despite a […]
EGYPTIAN actress Yusra has been acquitted of outraging public morals over a risque photograph published on the cover of a cinema magazine four years ago, court officials said on Friday.Yusra was convicted after two Islamist lawyers complained that she appeared “nearly nude” in the November 1995 cover photograph of Al-Cinema wal-Nass.Defence lawyers argued that the […]
Peter Sutton (Crossfire, March 5 to 11), in an article that relies on a book by Michael Denton, writes that “the theory propounded by Charles Darwin and his followers still remains to be proved conclusively”. Denton has led Sutton astray by criticising evolution without first troubling to understand the process. The article states that molecular […]