Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week The Coen brothers – Joel and Ethan – made their first movie efforts on 8mm while they were kids, doing remakes of famous Hollywood movies they had seen. Eventually they did a pilot for a noir comedy-thriller, Blood Simple, and managed to gather enough money to film 30 minutes […]
Suzy Bell attends the annual celebrations of the appearance or birth of Lord Krishna, the supreme deity who revealed the Bhagavad Gita Steeped in sacred ceremony and ritual, over 50 000 Hare Krishna devotees, some from as far afield as Poland and Australia, immersed themselves in the three-day festival of Sri Krishna Janmastami last weekend. […]
Jon Qwelane Right to Reply The trouble with the Mail & Guardian’s editor and his small coterie of executives is their apparent obsession with the fallacy that they hold copyright on what is true and correct. Pontificating from their lofty ivory tower, they seem to have forgotten (or actually never even knew) two simple points: […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Thursday 7.00PM. THOUSANDS of African National Congress members in KwaZulu-Natal have marched to the offices of the KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally to demand his resignation. Members of the SA Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions also joined the march. The protesters handed a memorandum to the Deputy […]
Neil Manthorp in Birmingham Cricket At last, some justice. The final moment of any significance, the last memory of the tour of England, was positive. Not just the victory, but the catch by Jonty Rhodes in the covers. So often we see great feats of athleticism diminished by the television replay. Occasionally they remain untarnished, […]
The April 30 to May 7 edition of the Mail & Guardian carried a report headlined `NP leader in bizarre sex probe’. The National Party laid a complaint with the Press Ombudsman, Ed Linington, who decided on the matter last week. This was his decision: It is understandable that the National Party and its leader […]
It looks like I’ll have to throw out my computer. Or at least donate it to some institution I don’t really care for. Maybe if I take it apart and give away the components, the hex on the machine itself will be broken. For the past six months, I have been unable to access the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 10.00pm. FIFTY-THREE heads of state, five deputy presidents or prime ministers and 102 foreign ministers will be attending the Non-Aligned Movement summit which begins in Durban on Saturday. A further 12 foreign ministers will participate as observers, while up to 3000 delegates and several hundred media representatives will also attend. […]
Simone de Beauvoir described her companion and fellow philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, as her `greatest achievement’. But it was the American writer Nelson Algren who was the great love of her life. They began a passionate affair just as she was embarking on her landmark feminist text, The Second Sex. In her letters, she tells of […]
Brenda Atkinson On exhibition in Johannesburg An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Lionel Abrams opened at the Standard Bank Gallery last week to warm tribute from local cultural luminaries. One of these, an article by Albie Sachs in the Sunday Independent, provided a poignant and poetic insight into the man who was Sachs’s friend […]