Despite a few familiar Farah ‘tropes’, such familiar story material is manoeuvred freshly and adeptly here, indeed as if he had never attempted to squeeze the juice from it before. Stephen Gray dips into Nuruddin Farah’s latest work <i>Links</i>.
Sepultura means "sepulchre" in Portuguese, and the Brazilian metal supergroup certainly know how to dig a deep, dark grave to bury you alive in, writes Alexander Sudheim. The heavy metal group are on their way to shake SA.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> I usually steer clear of making the kind of comment one often hears about a good movie from Australia, New Zealand or the Third World. It goes like this: "Now that’s the kind of film we should be making in South Africa." Usually, writes Shaun de Waal.
An uplifting short film based on the classic <i>Heidi</i> is doing the rounds — but this time the little girl is African. The Alps are the hills of KwaZulu-Natal and the grandfather is replaced by a mother dying of Aids, writes Matthew Krouse.
A few weeks ago the Springbok rugby team swept into the little hamlet of Ceres to shoot a television advertisement for the World Cup, which is apparently happening quite soon. The action was standard stuff, Saving Private Ryan in white shorts, and then they signed some balls, piled into the bus and burnt rubber back to the big smoke.
It’s been Gary Kirsten’s decade, no doubt. As a young man in his early twenties, as youth would want, his journey of self-discovery involved numerous highways, waterways and airways.
Prospects are ”not particularly bright” for progress in trade liberalisation at next month’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Mexico, says South Africa’s chief negotiator Xavier Carim.
Heavyweight resources stocks Anglo American and BHP Billiton were propping up the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa in thin noon trade on Friday. Overall, the market’s performance was stodgy, with decliners outnumbering advancers on the Top 40 index by two to one.
Jacob Zuma’s support in the ANC is waning.
Bulelani Ngcuka has finally fulfilled his detractors’ greatest fears — or so some legal minds believe. He, they say, has put politics before the law. Durban attorney Saber Ahmed Jazbhay said businessman Schabir Shaik may have a constitutional case against the Scorpions in terms of the right to equality before the law.