Cape Town | Tuesday A CITY of Cape Town programme, printed with a photo of Mayor Gerald Morkel enjoying a joke with fugitive businessman Jurgen Harksen, was an ”unfortunate mishap”, a city official said on Tuesday. The programme was printed as the first of a series of mayoral ”meet the people” gatherings across the city, […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Thursday PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Thursday marked Zimbabwe’s 22nd anniversary of independence with fresh appeals for Zimbabweans to unite and help the southern African country to grow in the aftermath of disputed elections that returned him to power. ”Let us build our country, let us bury our differences,” said Mugabe amid […]
Arusha | Wednesday FORMER Rwandan priest Hormisdas Nsengimana on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to four counts of genocide charges before an International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) court in Arusha, the independent Hirondelle press agency reported. Charges against Nsengimana, a former rector of Christ Roi (Christ the King) College in the Butare region of southern […]
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Television comedian Ali G has taken to the big screen — will he keep his legions of fans? Very probably, writes Peter Bradshaw.
<b>REVIEW:</b> <i>Shane Warne: My Autobiography</i> (Coronet). This is a pies-and-beer rather than a cabernet-and-camembert book, writes John Young.
A new exhibition makes public the private thoughts of people living with HIV and Aids, writes Brenton Maart.
<b>REVIEWS:</b>
<i>Christ: a Crisis in the Life of God</i> by Jack Miles (Heinemann)
<i>It Ain’t Necessarily So: Investigating the Truth of the Biblical Past</i> by Matthew Sturges (Headline)
<i>Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity</i> by Richard Holloway (Century)<P>
<b>REVIEW:</b> <i>Love Child</i> (University of Natal Press) is a joyful collection of short stories and poems by self-styled praise poet Gcina Mhlophe, writes Lynda Harvey.
Harare | Tuesday THE editor of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper has been arrested over a story published about last month’s controversial elections won by President Robert Mugabe, his lawyer said. Three officers from the criminal investigation department of the police took Daily News editor-in-chief Geoff Nyarota from his office on charges of falsifying and […]