Cape Town band Flat Stanley are on the road to fame and show no signs of stopping soon. Vocalist Andrew Mac spoke to Riaan Wolmarans.
There can hardly be a more surreal setting in which to watch Living with Michael Jackson. The documentary made by the British TV journalist Martin Bashir is at the centre of the current trial of the 46-year-old entertainer on charges of child molestation.
Tony Leon, leader of the Democratic Alliance, writes for the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on the debate in Parliament two weeks ago about President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address, which "contained two parallel debates — one looking back at the past, the other focused on the future".
It’s the dream of all naturalists: immortalising themselves by naming a new animal or plant species they have discovered. But scientists Robert Wallace and Humberto Gomez of the United States Wildlife Conservation Society have decided to carry out an internet sale to auction off the rights to name a monkey species the two men recently discovered in Bolivia.
West African leaders said on Tuesday they have appointed a regional observer to help reconcile Togo’s polarised political parties ahead of presidential elections in April to choose a successor to long-time autocrat Gnassingbe Eyadema. The appointment of the observer is one in a series of proposals to accompany the Togo electoral process.
The government is to review the visa regime inherited from ”the bad old days”, Director General of Home Affairs Barry Gilder said on Tuesday. He was speaking to journalists on the final day of a regional meeting of the United Nations-backed Global Commission on International Migration.
The leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades opened fire on Tuesday on the empty car of Palestinian Interior Minister Nasr Yussef in the West Bank stronghold of Jenin, witnesses said. Zakaria Zubeidi scarred Yussef’s parked car with bullets at the Palestinian security services headquarters in Jenin. Yussef was reviewing security forces at the time.
French detectives are searching for the missing 10th Earl of Shaftesbury along the network of roads between France and Germany after his estranged wife allegedly revealed that his body had been dumped by her fleeing brother. The earl, 66, was last seen at the Noga Hilton in Nice in early November last year.
It was a night unlike any other in the glorified shopping centre that is the Kodak theatre, the purpose-built home for the Oscars in the past few years. A garish rash of white concrete and pseudo marble, it is the sort of building that would sit happily in Las Vegas but stands out from the grime and sleaze of Hollywood Boulevard, somewhere on the wrong side of Beverly Hills.
The government’s new draft fisheries policy, released for public comment on Tuesday ahead of the allocation of long-term quotas later this year, will see emerging small and medium enterprises gaining a greater share of South Africa’s fish stocks at the expense of the industry’s big players.