No image available
/ 12 September 2003
Delving into a range of new fiction, Shirley Kossick looks at two books that explore effects of colonialism against backdrops of soaring and Australian and New Zealand landscapes, as well as a reflection of lost culture set in 1879 Natal, a reflection on the experiences of indentured Indian sugar-cane labourers.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
Director Patwardhan provides an upfront, passionate and personal critique of the phenomenon of "nuclear nationalism" and its manifestation in Indian society — especially in the lives and homes of the poor and downtrodden, writes Vinetia Govender, reviewing <i>War and Peace</i>.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> DreamWorks’s new animated adventure, <i>Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas</i> is very well done — as far as I could tell in the appalling conditions of one of the big cinemas at Hyde Park Nu Metro. The film was out of focus throughout, it was too dim, and the sound was too soft, observed Shaun de Waal.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
<b>CDs of the week:</b>
<i>Various:</i> Exile on Blues Street; Blues on Blonde on Blonde
The blues, in one way or another, underlie an awful lot of popular music, so it’s no surprise that someone has thought of doing blues versions of the songs of The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan — both draw meaningfully and powerfully on that tradition, writes Shaun de Waal.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
A veteran of unusual protests rolled a nut to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s doorstep with his nose on Friday, completing a 11,2km journey across London aimed at highlighting the issue of student debt. His journey took 11 days.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
A constitutional challenge is to be launched in the Zimbabwe Supreme Court over the arrest, imprisonment and trial of Benjamin Paradza, a High Court judge of that country, the General Bar Council of South Africa said on Friday.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
The world is short of about ,5-billion a year to effectively maintain its existing system of national parks, according to a study released by a team of international experts at the World Parks Congress in Durban. Among those hardest hit by the shortfall are some African parks, where the situation is described as ”perilous”.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
Wild Coast communities who own one of the world’s most important conservation ”hot spots” are signing a multimillion-rand ecotourism deal, effectively edging out mining interests in the region. The Mkambati Land Trust has approved the development of lodges by top-end ecotourism operators.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
The New National Party has come out with guns blazing against the proposed ministerial committee to investigate the allegation that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid-era spy. The announcement of the committee probe was made by Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna on Thursday.
No image available
/ 12 September 2003
Three Boeremag treason trialists lost yet another bid in the Pretoria High Court on Friday to be freed on bail. Acting Judge Lyzette Meyer said the three had failed to prove that exceptional circumstances existed to warrant their release on bail.