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/ 24 October 2003
Here are some words used by DBC Pierre to describe himself, the day after winning the Man Booker Prize: freak, dickhead, arsehole, dumb, farting machine, awkward and bumbling. The 42-year-old Australian concludes: ”I should just fucking shut up.” He talks to Emma Brockes.
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/ 24 October 2003
Sibongile Khumalo once described the late jazz pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa as a young man born old. By that the soprano supreme probably meant Molelekwa was ahead of his time. His death in 2001, at the age of 29, seems to have rendered Khumalo’s observations prophetic, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 24 October 2003
Australia said on Friday that 52 000 sheep aboard the so-called ”ship of death” had been accepted by Eritrea, ending an embarrassing two-month saga after Saudi Arabia rejected them on health grounds.
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/ 24 October 2003
Opposition Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille says said on Friday Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang should be locked up as soon as possible.
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/ 24 October 2003
Author Hugh Lewin has won the prestigious Olive Schreiner Prize for best new work of prose for his book <i>Bandiet out of Jail</i>. The prize dates back to 1964.
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/ 24 October 2003
A message from Incognito ahead of their performances in South Africa next week: "Don’t you worry ’bout a thing" for we will leave you "spellbound and speechless". Well, actually those are titles to two of the numerous hits Incognito has given us over the past decade as one of the world’s top acid jazz and funk bands, writes Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 24 October 2003
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK: </b>Holes is not quite your usual teen fare. It isn’t a realistic tale with moral lessons to teach on the subjects of drugs or sex; nor is it the kind of out-and-out fantasy that is also huge in that market. It’s an odd combination of the two, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 24 October 2003
The distorted reflections of JM Coetzee generated since he won the Nobel Prize say more about the media than about him, wrote <b><a class="standardtext" href="http://www.server.mg.co.za/art/2003/2003oct/031017-coetzee.html" target="_blank">Shaun de Waal</a></b>. Here we publish some responses from readers.
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/ 24 October 2003
Peter Rorvik, director of the Durban International Film Festival, and Nashen Moodley, manager of the festival, respond to some questions from Shaun de Waal about the festival.
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/ 24 October 2003
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has welcomed the conviction and jail sentence imposed by the Johannesburg Regional Court on a former employee on Friday on three counts of corruption.