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/ 3 February 2001
DAVID MACFARLANE and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday CHAIR a meeting a month and rake in R240_000 to R360_000 a year. That’s the jaw-dropping deal for some council members at Unisa, a university plagued by low staff morale and under severe financial stress from declining student intakes. Occupying the plushest seat on the Unisa gravy […]
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/ 3 February 2001
NEARLY 7_000 people died and more than 20_000 were injured in a total of 12_000 road accidents recorded in Nigeria last year. The number of deaths recorded was up almost 15% from the 1999 figure, to 6_797 from 5_921. The number of people injured in accidents rose to 20_555 from 18_001 a year earlier, a […]
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/ 2 February 2001
As the polarised reactions to Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark have demonstrated, one person’s tragedy is another’s melodrama; one person’s deeply moving is another’s irksomely sentimental. If melodrama is tragedy that fails to move one, then sentimentality is emotion to which you do not respond.
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/ 2 February 2001
Full-length cartoon movies are finally to get their own Oscar. About time too, says Steve Rose.
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/ 2 February 2001
M Night Shyamalan, the 30-year-old writer-director of the commercially (10th-highest grossing film of all time) and artistically successful <i>The Sixth Sense</i>, has a knack of drawing us into a world that is so unique and mysterious, yet grounded, that we can only marvel as we are swept along a road with very few signposts.
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/ 2 February 2001
Every year countless numbers of South African children end up in hospitals with serious burn injuries. Whatever the cause of their burns, they face a life of emotional trauma that comes from severe physical disfigurement. But the reality, as Khadija Magardie found, is that they can be helped if the injuries are attended to in […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Bronwen Jones ‘Shit” is a mild expletive, inoffensive to many. But human excrement is taboo. This most distasteful of subjects has been on my mind and in the air for several weeks now. I am acting in loco parentis for a little girl who lost most of her legs, and her parents, in a fire […]
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/ 2 February 2001
David Beresford Another Country There is what might be described as a pre-Copernican instinct in most people that proceeds from a sense of self-importance to an assumption about the centrality of their lives to human existence and their times to history. When the impulse came to declare mankind at a turning point, or crossroads, it […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Hours before its printing works was destroyed in a bomb blast, top Zim officials vowed to silence the Daily News. Mercedes Sayagues reports State terrorism has escalated in Zimbabwe with Sunday’s bomb attack on the independent newspaper, the Daily News. Experts estimate that five TM46 anti-tank landmines fitted with limpet-type detonators destroyed the 60cm thick […]
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/ 2 February 2001
South Africa has been criticised for not taking a stronger stand against executions Roshila Pillay The South African government will not intervene to save South African Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch from the gallows. However, the Cape High Court is considering an application by Tanzanian national Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, the man allegedly responsible for the bomb that […]