Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10Â 000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The animated star of Tomb Raider games unflinchingly braves explosions on a giant TV screen that hangs, incongruously, above the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10Â 000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The animated star of Tomb Raider games unflinchingly braves explosions on a giant TV screen that hangs, incongruously, above the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
KwaZulu-Natal health minister Peggy Nkonyeni on Thursday denied media reports that the department’s head, Professor Ronald Green-Thompson, had been fired. Her statement came after provincial newspapers and the South African Broadcasting Corporation quoted Green-Thompson as saying that he had been sacked.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Thursday night invoked an Article of the labour law to advise unions and coal producers on a wage settlement. ”This basically means that the CCMA can tell the negotiating parties what settlement they should adopt in the wage dispute,” a union spokesperson said.
A Cape Town businessman has been sent to prison in the United States after pleading guilty to the illegal export — to Pakistan via South Africa — of American-made items that can be used in nuclear weapons, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Friday.
South Africa’s bid commission for the 2010 Gay Games is confident the country has a better chance than competitors Germany and France to stage the Games in Johannesburg. Bid marketing and communications officer Paul Tilly told the Mail & Guardian Online South Africa is the ideal place for a number of reasons.
It’s okay for Marc Lottering, to trade in coloured stereotypes, but, if outsiders make jokes or generalise about that group, they run the risk of being taken to the Human Rights Court, writes Mike van Graan.
In Mandelaville, near Roodepoort, residents are literally in the dark as they wait for the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council to deliver on the promises of a better life it made when it relocated them from Diepkloof in 2001. Four years later, they still watch battery-operated TVs because there is no electricity.
Urgent joint action by government authorities, ranging from law enforcement agencies to the tax man, is needed to break the stranglehold a small group has on the taxi sector, according to a recommendation by the commission of inquiry into the volatile Cape taxi industry.
The appointment of a ”white Ameri-can male” as the new dean of humanities has underscored deep racial divisions at Wits University. Professor Timothy Reagan will replace Professor Gerrit Olivier, whose contract ends in September. Reagan is professor of linguistics and foreign language education and dean of the school of education at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, United States.