Shaun de Waal looks into the various controversies that have erupted around the movie version of Arthur Golden’s bestselling novel.
Namibia has suddenly gained immense popularity in the United States thanks to the visit by Hollywood golden couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, the country’s ambassador to the US said on Thursday. Jolie, who is eight months pregnant and is expected to give birth in Namibia, arrived with Pitt in the Southern African country in early April.
ANIMATION OF THE WEEK: It may look, smell and taste like last year’s Madagascar, but Disney’s latest release, The Wild is funnier, writes Tumi Makgetla.
The Subaru Impreza WRX STi is an amazingly powerful vehicle. It’s nothing like the comfortable sedans we’ve become accustomed to, the sort of cars that deliver the performance, but are also focused on making the ride as cushy as possible. Nope, none of that namby-pamby thinking for this legendary beast.
A young Georgian wrestler late on Thursday pulled two Ford minibuses tied to his ear and weighing 4,5 tonnes over a distance of 41m and 10cm, in an attempt to make a new entry into the Guinness Book of World Records. The two minibuses were chained together and linked to a nylon rope attached to Lasha Pataraia’s left ear.
Hollywood star George Clooney pleaded on Thursday for a more vigorous United States effort to end what he called ”the first genocide of the 21st century” in Sudan’s war-devastated Darfur region. The Oscar-winning actor and director urged broad participation at demonstrations to be held on Sunday in Washington, San Francisco and several other US cities.
The death toll after a deadly outbreak of cholera in war-devasted Angola has climbed to 900, a medical humanitarian organisation said on Thursday, reporting one death every hour this week. The last toll reported by the United Nations’s World Health Organisation stood at 570 just over a week ago.
A task team appointed by the African National Congress to probe the authenticity of the alleged ”hoax e-mails” began its investigation from Luthuli House quietly this week. It has been received with mixed responses from senior party members, and is likely either to worsen tensions in the ruling party or be used as a trouble-shooting mechanism to neutralise fractures in the ANC.
Had Neil Young released a song titled Let’s Impeach the President three years ago, he would have been exiled to the fringes of American music: just ask the Dixie Chicks. ”I feel like I’m exercising my right of free speech, which is what our boys are fighting for the Iraqi people to have,” the 60-year-old singer said.
During apartheid, the monologue tended to prevail in the best of South African drama. Perhaps this was because theatre saw it as its task to create an opposing voice to the dreary, but clearly effective, monologue of Afrikaner nationalism. To the propaganda of the state, which denied the humanity that runs through all of us, […]