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/ 12 November 2004
”I grew up around empowered women and I cannot accept being victimised in my own society,” says Lebo Mashile. If she, Karen Zoid, and other young women represent a new generation of local artists, then we’re doing okay, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 12 November 2004
THRILLER OF THE WEEK: Where no one can hear you scream … Open Water embodies both the spirits of Spielberg’s Jaws and Polanski’s Knife in the Water to present a spine-chilling hour and a half of sheer suspense, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 12 November 2004
After strutting its stuff in London and Toronto, Zola Maseko’s Drum, finally being shown in South Africa at last. Maseko privately agrees that, to get the movie made at all, he was finally obliged to sup with the Hollywood devil, writes John Matshikiza.
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/ 12 November 2004
The African National Congress Youth League on Friday issued a statement in reaction to a Mail & Guardian report on Friday that listed ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula among African National Congress members with business interests. The league challenged the M&G to disclose Mbalula’s business interests.
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/ 12 November 2004
Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye appointed Frederic Ngenzebuhoro (52) on Thursday as his a new vice-president to replace the dismissed Alphonse Marie Kadege. Ndayizeye made the appointment following a session of the Senate and the National Assembly, during which 196 MPs endorsed the choice of Ngenzebuhoro.
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/ 12 November 2004
A Rwandan rebel force based in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday affirmed its readiness to cooperate in any inquiry into alleged rapes in the region. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda is a mainly Hutu group of fighters, including remnants of those who carried out the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
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/ 12 November 2004
Amid a flurry of negative comments about the consortium led by Andile Ngcaba that is proposing to buy a 15,1% stake in Telkom from Thintana, telecommunications firm DataPro Group on Friday came out in support of the deal. However, DataPro is concerned about Smuts Ngonyama’s involvement.
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/ 12 November 2004
Men’s advocacy groups throughout the United States are up in arms over a television commercial for cellphones that portrays fathers as dumb and dispensable. It shows a father perplexed by his small daughter’s homework before being humiliated and dispatched from the kitchen by the exasperated child and mother.
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/ 12 November 2004
With the unprecedented feast of South African feature films about to show at the World Cinema Film festival next week, the local film industry is booming. But we must critically examine the fundamentals to ensure that we build a sustainable industry, writes Joel Phiri.
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/ 12 November 2004
Richard Dawkins’s tale of evolution embodies a twist: he tells the story backwards, starting with us. Casting himself as a pilgrim, we journey with him through time to meet our "concestors" (Dawkins’s neat neologism for common ancestor). Matt Ridley reviews.