Bad sex, betrayal, over-spending and hate speech were some of the low-lights of the cultural year.
The voices of local poets are about to be heard beyond the confines of smoky downtown clubs, writes Riekje Pelgrim.
The hit United States television drama about life in a fictional White House, <i>The West Wing</i>, will end its seven-year run in May, losing its battle against declining audiences. Marc Lavine reports.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera has set a theatrical record, becoming the longest-running show in Broadway history.
Just four weeks ago Themba Sibanda — who is HIV-positive — was brought to Mpilo government hospital almost lifeless after suffering from a severe bout of malaria. A doctor quickly prescribed a chloroquine course that had Sibanda on his feet after just two days. But Sibanda’s luck ran out this week when he returned to Mpilo. He was turned away because there were no doctors at the hospital,
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Israel will continue its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas until two soldiers are freed and rocket strikes end, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday told United Nations envoys. Israeli jets hit Lebanese army bases and flattened homes in a deadly new blitz of air strikes on Tuesday, the seventh day of an assault that has killed at least 240 people.
A member of the public shot dead one robber and residents nabbed another two in separate incidents in Pretoria on Tuesday, police said. In the first incident in Pretoria North, a man shot at two alleged robbers as they were trying to hijack a vehicle at the Kolonnade Shopping Centre, said spokesperson Constable Brenda Kgafela.
Five people accused of the Johannesburg International airport heist were granted bail of between R20 000 and R50 000 by a Kempton Park Regional Court magistrate on Tuesday. Shaheed Rudolf (43) of Eersterus, Rushdee Rudolf (42) of Cape Town and Christopher Billings were granted bail of R50 000 each.
A doctor and two nurses were arrested for killing four patients in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, investigators said on Tuesday. An arrest warrant filed on Monday charged that the doctor and nurses administered lethal doses of morphine and another drug to patients at Memorial Medical Centre.