Renaye D Menasseh speaks to Spike Lee about his new film and its top-notch cast.
The Cape Town Book Fair provides the ideal platform for getting South Africa’s new writing and publishing out there, but it is being launched with performance, not hype, in mind. Karen Rutter reports.
An American Muslim convicted of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate United States President George Bush was sentenced to 30 years behind bars by a judge who compared him to ”American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 25-year-old US citizen who was born to a Jordanian father and raised in Virginia.
The Kenyan government said on Thursday it had suspended the country’s central-bank governor, who last week was charged with four counts of abuse of office in a corruption scandal. Government spokesperson Alfred Mutua said Central Bank of Kenya chief Andrew Mullei had been formally suspended by President Mwai Kibaki on Wednesday pending his trial.
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: John Madden’s latest feature, Proof, starring Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow, just doesn’t add up, writes Peter Bradshaw.
Since its inception in 2000, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has included a world-class photographic exhibition as part of the visual arts mix. This year’s exhibitors include Peter Magubane, Fanie Jason and Mike Mzileni. Magubane began a distinguished photographic career for Drum magazine in 1955. At the Rand Daily Mail in the Sixties, he […]
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) did not gather information about the Democratic Alliance, Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils said in a statement on Thursday. Kasrils said many concerns have been raised following the report of the inspector general of intelligence into certain unauthorised activities by the NIA.
Photographer Zanele Muholi’s new exhibition — Only Half the Picture — is an honest and raw depiction of sexuality, sex and femaleness, writes Hazel Friedman.
Thousands of former political prisoners and their families are living in dire poverty, Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota said in Johannesburg on Thursday. Lekota was addressing business people in the presence of former president Nelson Mandela and the newly launched Ex-Political Prisoners Committee.
Iran refuses to halt uranium enrichment, Iranian ambassador Aliasghar Soltanieh told Agence France-Presse on Thursday, the day after the United Nations Security Council called for the programme to be suspended. ”Iran’s decision on enrichment, particularly research and development, is irreversible.” said Soltanieh.