Moveable Feast Marino Corazza ACCORDING to Marco Polo, milk ices were being sold in the streets of Chinese towns in 3000 BC. The Italians, who are renowned for their ice-creams, can thank the Chinese for its introduction — Polo brought the recipe back from China in 1274. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was said to […]

CINEMA: Fabius Burger THERE are amazing explosions in Blown Away. It’s just as well, considering the plot is so silly. A mad bomber (Tommy Lee Jones) kills off members of Boston’s bomb disposal unit, trying to wipe out James Dove (Jeff Bridges) — something to do with trouble back in Belfast. Blown Away is an […]

Pat Sidley SPORTS sponsorship received a major boost this week when the Department of Health announced stringent new regulations for advertising and packaging tobacco products. With both packets and adverts re-quired to carry visible health warnings, sports sponsorship may look to the to-bacco companies as the only way to go. The new regulations take effect […]

ATHLETICS: Julian Drew THE annual Soweto Marathon takes place for the second time on Sunday and despite the teething problems with the organisation of the race, it is fast becoming South Africa’s premier city marathon. Last year the race did not obtain official sanction from the South African Road Running Association. The Transvaal Amateur Athletic […]

The release this week of Natural Born Killers raises the question of whether violent films encourage violence in real life and should be censored. They don’t and they shouldn’t, argues Shaun de Waal (also see film review below) OLIVER STONE’S film about a pair of casual serial murderers, Natural Born Killers, opens in South Africa […]

RUGBY: Andy Capostagno IT has been well documented that Ireland is a place where the unusual happens on a regular basis. And so when the greatest rugby player of all time walked into the Springbok hotel, ignored the tourists and invited their baggage master to dinner it should really have come as no surprise. When […]

A tendency for films to celebrate the evil of violence brings censorship closer, argues Reg Rumney AS a writer I feel bound to oppose censorship because I will contest anything that tries to limit artistic expression. As an ordinary person I increasingly favour censorship, particularly of violence. This was distilled for me by Natural Born […]

The formation of a House of Traditional Leaders in kwaZulu/Natal has created conflict between the ANC and IFP, writes Farouk Chothia BEHIND the ANC’s opposition to a House of Traditional Leaders in kwaZulu/Natal lies realpolitik: it wants to prevent its newly-acquired asset, Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini, from being exposed as a monarch without a crown, […]

THE code of corporate practice and conduct set out by the King report applies to all listed companies, large public entities, banks, financial and insurance companies, large unlisted companies, and large unlisted quasi-state entities such as control boards and co-ops. Key recommendations of the code are that each company subscribing to the code should: * […]

FINE ART: Ivor Powell THE season is upon us when art galleries put on their festive end-of-year theme exhibitions. Such shows traditionally strive to be “fun” on the one hand — and emporia of upmarket Christmas gifts on the other. Somewhere they usually include in their conception a vague message of goodwill. The Thompson Gallery […]