A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death at Mukumbani near Thohoyandou on Thursday by a man who accused him of being too long on a public telephone, police said on Friday. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the man was stabbed to death after he refused to let the suspect use the public telephone. The dead man […]
FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel is to be awarded a Doctor of Commerce (DComm) degree at the University of Stellenbosch when the university confers seven honorary doctorates and one honorary masters degrees at graduation ceremonies in December this year and March 2002. The university said Manuel had redefined service provision to the disadvantaged and shifted government […]
THE Lotus Gardens Mosque in Laudium, west of Pretoria, was vandalised on Sunday night, police said on Monday morning. Police representative Inspector Piletji Sebola said parts of the building and windows were damaged during the attack. ”A preliminary investigation has found that vandalism is suspected.” Sebola said the incident had no definite links to US […]
Cape Town | Monday SOUTH Africa had overcome apartheid and its people had it in them to overcome the ”awful” challenges of Aids, poverty, crime and corruption, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Sunday. In an interview on SABC’s Newsmaker programme to mark his 70th birthday, he said the trouble with many South Africans was that […]
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Womad SA doesn’t yet pull the crowds, but the organisers shouldn’t compromise on its ethos, writes Drew Forrest.
Not the movie of the week: Given the Spielbergian sentimentality, the movie should perhaps have been called Artificial Emotion instead, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>Movie of the week:</b> The scientist sees the human as a machine that procreates and dies or is copied, whereas a flawed artist like Spielberg sees the human, real or copied, as the carrier of a soul that lives forever as a child – a human being, writes Neil Sonnekus.
MOTORRACING Alan Henry It was an oblique tribute to Murray Walker’s key role in the shaping of Formula One’s televised image over the past three decades that Jaguar driver Eddie Irvine felt obliged to blurt out a dose of light-hearted, if hardly diplomatic, criticism of Bernie Ecclestone’s grand prix show at Indianapolis last weekend. Invited […]
The controversial clause on foreign investment went a little further than recommended Barry Streek The British government is “very concerned” about the decision by the African National Congress majority in Parliament’s safety and security committee to ban foreign investment in South Africa’s private security industry, saying it contravenes the 1998 agreement between the two countries […]