A day before the third anniversary of 9/11, Cape radio listeners were told that Jews are murderers of babies and children as well as conspirators who want to control the world. This week the radio station both broadcast and put on its website an apology to the Jewish community, after the M&G e-mailed questions to the station about the show. But a Jewish community leader says the apology is ”not good enough”.
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.
”I have read that this and the other person is an intellectual. I too want to be an intellectual,” wrote Mr X to the Mail & Guardian some years ago. All communists and black consciousness proponents consider themselves intellectuals. It simply wouldn’t feel right if the average capitalist tagged himself as such. One has to be at least a little socially disgruntled to qualify.
For his new thriller <i>Collateral</i>, starring Tom Cruise, the director Michael Mann has ditched the first two acts — and jumped straight in at the denouement. He tells Dan Glaister why.
Matt Damon hit big with <i>The Bourne Identity</i> two years ago, and now he’s back once more as the ex-CIA assassin taking aim at his former employers. Here he talks about the role and the film.
Robert Altman is often described as a maverick, an iconoclast, idiosyncratic in his filmmaking and, as a result, films can look unstructured. That’s because the bits he likes best are the mistakes, he tells Suzie Mackenzie.
It’s a matter of official record: matric exams are becoming easier. This was confirmed last week by Peliwe Lolwane, CEO of Umalusi, the independent body tasked with certifying the matric exams. A report released on September 21 on Umalusi’s research into standards of the matric exams stated that ”higher pass rates are not a sign of examinations becoming easier”.
An African National Congress document circulating in the Eastern Cape has warned that the province is entering ”a phase of political instability” that threatens the social and economic development programmes of the poverty-stricken province.
A puppeteer who has been putting on his Punch and Judy show for English children for the past 15 years is likely to have his show banned by councillors in the Cornish town of Bodmin in southwestern England. Bodmin’s Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre had bombarded Reg Payn (48) the town’s officially licensed puppeteer with leaflets on domestic violence, The Times reported on Friday.