From March 18 your movie experience will change utterly. Ster-Kinekor has announced that 80% of its movie houses will be turned into ”discount venues”, where seats will be unallocated and cost R14 each. In a move to revitalise cinema-going, hit by home entertainment and pricey tickets, the 30 ”Junction” movie houses will be largely located in malls used by black people.
The Young Communist League believes the South African Communist Party may vote at a special conference next month to go it alone in this year’s local elections .
Young Communist League secretary general Buti Manamela said: ”As far as we know, the dominant position in the party is that we should contest power through elections.”
Documents obtained by the Mail & Guardian belie claims by former Vista University administrative chief Reuben Mbuli that there was no conflict of interest when he accepted a hefty ”retainer” from a businessman trying to secure work from the university. These documents rubbish claims that the ”retainer” was received for private legal work, as Mbuli claimed in a letter to the M&G a fortnight ago.
Movie director Rodney Evans, a guest of this year’s Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, writes about the making of his award-winning feature film <i>Brother to Brother</i>. The work follows the emotional journey of a young artist who discovers the hidden legacies of gay subculture within the Harlem renaissance.
A Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and Snoop Dogg fan, Katie Melua represents the new generation of artists on the music scene. Extensive travel has taught Melua the ways of the world, writes Nadia Neophytou.
If you turn the stereo to its maximum volume will you hear nothing as you’ve made silence so loud as to obliterate noise?" Is this question philosophical, metaphorical or literal? Zambian artist Anawana Halowa’s installation <i>Loud Silence</i> somehow manages to skid among a number of questions, observes Alex Sudheim.
Having just won the prestigious Linares tournament in Spain, Garry Kasparov announced that he was quitting professional chess. A colleague asked me what it meant. I said it was the equivalent of Ronaldinho suddenly turning his back on
professional soccer: a genius, the world’s greatest player, unexpectedly packing it in.
Max Ebrahim, the convenor of Zimbabwe’s cricket selectors, believes his country’s Test status is irrevocable. Given that his livelihood depends on that status, he’d be forgiven for defiant rhetoric, even rhetoric not necessarily based on facts. ”It took New Zealand 45 years before they had their first win,” he told Sapa earlier this week.
It may be against all odds, but perhaps the South African Rugby Union got it right when it called for submissions not just for the new fifth team, but for all five franchises ahead of next year’s expansion to the Super 14. After three rounds of the Super 12, the current South African franchises have recorded a grand total of two wins and one draw, a statistic that would be depressing were it not so familiar.
At about 8am on March 20 1995 commuters on packed subway trains in central Tokyo sensed something was wrong. They started to cough and struggle for breath. Some of those who made it on to platforms and upstairs to street level collapsed, foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood.