A group of Iraqi and English boys show their elders how to make peace. Clissold Park, Hackney, isn’t the obvious setting for an international peace conference. But here on an improvised football pitch, kids from England and Iraq are learning to live with each other.
A narrow loss in the second Test went some way to redeeming the Proteas’ reputation, writes Tom Eaton. In his wrap of the extraordinary second Test at Colombo this week, an online correspondent was inspired to declare that the match could not have been ”more tense, dramatic and gripping if it was scripted by Stephen King”.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Miami Vice</i> Michael Mann’s reinvention of Miami Vice feels like a hundred other, more recent TV cop shows, writes Shaun de Waal.
A film about the ill-fated 9/11 flight brings the horror to life as not even a documentary could, writes Shaun de Waal.
Gerard Sekoto’s gentle art had its violent moment, writes Matthew Krouse.
Darryl Accone looks at a new crop of titles in the much lambasted genre of crime thrillers.
Robert Laing reviews <i>Viersprong</i>, an anthology of 29 short stories spanning the gamut from cybersex to one story with some lesbian erotica in it.
Prime Minister Miguel Abia Biteo Borico and the whole government of the West African state of Equatorial Guinea resigned on Thursday, national television reported. ”As a good militant of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, I hand in the resignation of my government,” Abia Biteo said in a speech relayed on television.
Fresh infighting has flared up in Zanu-PF as the party’s rival camps square up over President Robert Mugabe’s hotly contested succession, with dossiers of alleged corruption surfacing as the latest political weapons. Sources said this week the two factions have intensified the power struggle over Mugabe’s job.
The enigma that is South African soccer was again evident on Thursday as the South African Airways Supa8 competition experienced a stuttering take-off on the eve of the weekend’s two opening fixtures. By Thursday, a mere seven tickets had been sold for the match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Santos in Atteridgeville.