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/ 25 November 2001
LUKE HARDING, Islamabad | Friday TRIBAL warlords who have spent the past five years in hibernation were swiftly re-emerging on Wednesday to try to get control of large swaths of southern Afghanistan – moves that are plunging the country back into the chaotic and feuding pre-Taliban era of the early 1990s. As Taliban forces retreated, […]
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/ 23 November 2001
JK Rowling’s genius lies in taking the best bits from all the children’s classics to make the Potter books, but the real magic’s in the film, writes Julie Myerson.
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/ 23 November 2001
<b>Grown-up’s movie of the week:</b> Patrice Chéreau’s film asks the same question that <i>Last Tango in Paris</i> asks: is it possible for two people to have a purely sexual relationship? By Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2001
<b>Kids’ movie of the week</b>. The film has less of the book’s jolly-hockey-sticks tone, but also fewer laughs. It flows along smoothly, from one episode to the next, without much rhythm, and some of the more hair-raising sequences seem curiously underplayed, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2001
you have to admit that South African television and radio have something special to offer visitors from overseas. Thanks to the efforts of such doughty South African prophets as Albert Hertzog — one-time minister of posts and telegraphs in the heyday of National Party rule — television was banned in this country. It only got […]
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/ 23 November 2001
Stefaans Brmmer Two of the main contracts in South Africa’s R66-billion arms deal submarines and corvettes from German consortia are open to challenge: they were awarded largely on the strength of pie-in-the-sky investment promises. The joint investigation report on the arms deal released to Parliament last week points to serious procedural and technical irregularities in […]
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/ 23 November 2001
The article “Workplace injury compensation shambles” (November 16) is fraught with inaccuracies, lack of contextual understanding, personal vilification and semantic engineering designed to give a negative impression of the compensation office. And, sadly, defamatory. Malicious inaccuracies include, inter alia, the number of staff employed, reasons for the backlogs, the “motives of the commissioner”, the administration […]
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/ 23 November 2001
Thebe Mabanga One of this year’s most hilarious revelations will be testing his peculiar brand of comedy against established acts at the Sprite Comedy Jam this weekend. Shonisani Aubrey Molea is a Yfm DJ and as a stand-up comic he’s called Shabba. He will share the stage with United States comedian Zooman and local funnyman […]
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/ 23 November 2001
NGOs want to reassert their roles in shaping public policy and becoming a delivery partner in the alleviation of poverty, health issues, joblessness and homelessness. Jubie Matlou spoke to Zakes Hlatswayo, newly elected president of the South African National NGO Coalition, following the NGO Week held in Rustenberg The NGO Week has been observed in […]
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/ 23 November 2001
obituary: kim mcdonald South Africa’s queen of the roads Elana Meyer is among those mourning the loss of one of track and field’s most influential figures. Agent-turned-International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) presidential adviser Kim McDonald (45) died two weeks ago while on holiday in Australia. McDonald, a dour Yorkshireman, started off his athletics career […]