Being a studio mogul, Dreamworks chief Jeffrey Katzenberg does not do understatement. ”It is nothing less than the greatest innovation that has happened for all of us in the movie business since the advent of colour 70 years ago,” the man who brought the world the Shrek movies told his audience this week.
A Parliamentary delegation will depart from Pretoria on Friday in a convoy to Cuito Cuanavale to commemorate the battle that took place there during the Angolan war. The delegation includes military veterans from both sides, representatives from government, scholars and civil society, Parliament said in a statement.
More than two months after his historic appointment, new South Africa rugby coach Peter de Villiers didn’t sign off on his contract this week because he wouldn’t have final say on team selection. De Villiers, in contract negotiations since his appointment on January 9, backed off from agreeing to the two-year contract on Monday and Tuesday.
South Africa’s cricket chiefs are confident their team will claim the India Test series starting this month and clinch their third successive win in the region. Cricket South Africa (CSA) hailed the team for sweeping the Bangladesh Test series last week and for winning the one-day series 2-0 on Wednesday with a game to spare.
A substantial jump in the number of Pentecostal Christians could have a positive impact on South Africa’s social and economic development, the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) said on Wednesday. ”If this rate of growth is maintained, South African Pentecostals will number almost 10-million by 2011, or one-fifth of the population,” the CDE said.
A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet. ”Wang and his wife, Luo, were married on February 2. The couple, however, frequently fought over trivial things while still on their honeymoon,” the Xinhua news agency quoted a local newspaper as saying.
Outspoken former South Africa coach Ray Jennings believes there are better candidates to captain the national side than Graeme Smith, who has led the Proteas in a record-breaking 55 Tests. Jennings has no issue with Smith the batsman, but does have reservations when it comes to him leading the side.
The case of two stranded whales saved by a dolphin off the coast of New Zealand could be the first such case in the world, a conservation worker said on Thursday. Moko the dolphin, a regular visitor to the coast of Mahia, became an instant hero after leading two pygmy whales into deep water on Monday.
The Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, is headed for a confrontation with the International Criminal Court after saying he will not hand over to The Hague the leaders of his country’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army indicted for war crimes. Museveni said Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and his commanders will instead be brought before ”traditional” Ugandan courts.
”I have discovered that the Mail & Guardian has since 2006 had an arrangement with the Southern Africa Trust, which gives the paper a grant to improve coverage and debate around poverty. That translates into a page in the Africa section every now and again — the frequency is due to rise to twice a month,” writes Franz Krüger.