Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, just hours after around 100 Israeli tanks moved deep into the area in a hunt for militants. The latest campaign, which began three days ago and aims to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel, intensified after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave a green light to a larger operation codenamed ”Days of Penitence”.
The Constitutional Court on Friday denied the Port Elizabeth municipality leave to appeal a court ruling preventing the eviction of 68 people living in shacks on private land in the city. The case began when 1 600 people in the suburb of Lorraine sought an eviction order to have the shack dwellers removed.
Four policemen were behind bars on Friday following an exposé on South African Broadcasting Corporation television showing policemen demanding bribes from prostitutes and their clients in Johannesburg suburbs, said Gauteng safety and security minister Firoz Cachalia. Seven policemen were identified and suspended after the television programme.
South Africa must speedily address inequitable land ownership patterns to avoid Zimbabwe-style farm invasions, the International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned. The ICG, which deals with conflicts around the globe, said South Africa faced rising tension over land and should act quickly to avert a grabbing of farms.
It appears that the knight in shining armour for the arts needs to be reminded that the power to appoint, to remove, to suspend, to do something at the NAC, resides with him, comments Mike van Graan.
With two dance movies coming out in October, we quiz you on movies about dancing (musicals don’t count) …
WIth lots of rolypoly sheep as extras and, as witnesses, those splayfoot ratites, otherwise known as Boer chickens: ostriches, Olive Schreiner’s <em>Story of an African Farm</em> has been filmed for the second time, writes Stephen Gray.
Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the Booker longlist, <em>Purple Hibiscus</em> is a thought-provoking novel that looks at what religion means to people in a changing society, and familial power-relations. MaQueen Motuba reviews.
Fifteen cats, 11 dogs, a pony and a llama live here, but this is no shelter, kennel or hobby farm. The 770-square-metre ranch on the sprawling campus of Texas A&M University is an orphanage of sorts, a place for pets whose owners have died. Its caretaker, one of the country’s top veterinary medicine schools, runs the place like a home, just what the pets’ owners wanted.
The wheels of justice are grinding too slowly for the liking of a Johannesburg civil engineering company which has accused the Gauteng Department of Public Works and Transport of discriminating against black firms. Manong and Associates has written a letter to the Magistrate’s Commission expressing its unhappiness with the slowness of the judicial process.