OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gauteng | Sunday 9.00pm. SOMEBODY is stalking Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the Sunday Times has reported. Madikizela-Mandela, president of the African National Congress Women’s League, said intruders broke into her home in Orlando West, Soweto, on Thursday night and, for the third time, rifled through her bedroom, but took nothing. They sneaked over the wall […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Sunday 11.00pm. AN aircraft which crashed into Uganda’s Ruwenzori Mountains late last month was heading for a gold-buying mission in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the state-owned New Vision newspaper reported on Sunday. Earlier reports said the plane had crashed in the DRC, and had been shot down by Allied […]
Bop Broadcasting’s latest audit has revealed major financial discrepancies, reports Mungo Soggot The Office of the Auditor General has rejected the Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation’s 1997 accounts after uncovering possible fraud involving millions of rand, widespread mismanagement and a breakdown of its financial systems. In a report signed off on July 21, the finance watchdog said […]
Has Narcissus taken over London’s art world? Adrian Searle reports Top TV prof Jonathan Miller, the gangling polymath, does it again: how can a mind be so full without exploding? His latest project, the exhibition Mirror Image: Jonathan Miller on Reflection, at the National Gallery in London, is a great idea. If you want to […]
unit busted Chiara Carter Several senior National Intelligence Agency (NIA) members face suspension and possible prosecution following a preliminary investigation into claims of missing money and misconduct. They were members of a special unit set up to find apartheid’s missing millions. Instead the unit, headed by former Umkhonto weSizwe commander Thabo Kubu, became embroiled in […]
Ben Laurance Share World It was Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty who created the precedent. “When I use a word,” he said, “it means exactly what I want it to mean – neither more nor less.” Now, 127 years after Through the Looking Glass was published, Alice has come to Wall Street. A hedge fund – […]
Lauren Shantall Movie of the week In an apathy-addled, dislocated age, Michael di Jiacomo’s latest offering, Animals – screened together with his short film The Tollkeeper – measures out an imaginatively potent dose of heartfelt living. Screened first, the highly visual The Tollkeeper is an unexpected cinematic treat. It opens, in the grainy black and […]
Anton Karstel’s Pol- aesthetic is an ambitious exploration of formal, aesthetic, spatial and temporal contingencies. The exhibition’s title puns tenuously on the aesthetic dimensions of socially and politically loaded iconography: the markings on police vehicles. These vehicles are represented through the “initial” spatio-temporal zone of this exhibition: the gallery space of Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre. Relinquishing […]
LEONARD NDZHUKULA and SHARON HAMMOND, Nelspruit | Friday 10.00pm. THE leopard that attacked six Northern Province villagers in Huntington village near Hazyview on Wednesday was in a healthy condition, but had not eaten for four or five days before the attack, the state veterinarian at the Kruger National Park, Dr Dewald Keet, said on Friday. […]
October is welfare month, with activities planned around the country. But do we need it, asks Black Sash pension campaigner Rosemary Smith When the Roman authorities wanted to appease the populace, they laid on bread and circuses. The Department of Welfare’s planned activities for welfare month in October smack of circuses. Is it the right […]