<b>Movie of the week:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews Martin Scorsese’s <i>Gangs of New York</i>, a violent movie about history and politics.
The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which runs in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, spreads its wings, reports Shaun de Waal.
Movie of the week:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated new film, <i>Talk to Her</i>.
<b>Review:</b> A Life of One’s Own: Hilda Bernstein (Jacana)
Various: Perfecto Presents Manuel Oettl
Disgraced MPTony Yengeni agreed to step down this week after being convinced by ANC heavyweights that his resignation from Parliament would favourably affect his sentencing, according to party insiders.
A national prevention and treatment programme for HIV/Aids would save three million lives and cost no more than R18-billion a year by 2015, according to a cost-benefit analysis conducted by the University of Cape Town.
Elephants in the Knysna forest are medicating themselves with "magic mushrooms" that could be used by people to counter the effects of HIV.
The key witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, Thursday made an emotional plea to the judge to be dismissed from the case, saying he was being ”abused” by both state and defence lawyers.
Bridgette Radebe, a mining magnate and the wife of Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe, is embroiled in a mining rights dispute in Mmakau village in the North West province.