A COURT in the northwestern Rwandan town of Gisenyi has sentenced 10 people to death and 23 to life imprisonment after convicting them of genocide and crimes against humanity, state radio reported on Saturday. Among those sentenced to death on Friday was Wellars Banzi, a former member of parliament and chairman in Gisenyi of the […]
US president George W. Bush will host South African President Thabo Mbeki next month to discuss bilateral relations and the situation in Africa, the White House has announced. “The two leaders will discuss the scope and future of the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa,” White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said […]
ONE child died on Friday after police teargassed demonstrators in Chitipa, northern Malawi, who were demanding a new road, witnesses said on Saturday. The 10-year-old girl died from choking on the tear gas after the panicking demonstrators ran helter-skelter leaving her unattended, the witnesses said, speaking on condition of anonymity. About 5_000 people were marching […]
EIGHTEEN-year-old Ramatouoaye Diallo of Senegal beat 23 other contestants from 19 countries on Saturday to win the Face of Africa competition at the South African resort of Sun City. The win gives her $200_000 and a contract with a New York modeling agency. Diallo, a tall young woman who shaves her head, told the judges […]
Movies about movie-making are always interesting for the sidelight they throw on the process, though they do run the risk of self-indulgence. Federico Fellini’s classic 8 1/2 is in part about such self-indulgence, showing us a confused filmmaker swamped by fantasy as much as by the travails of getting a movie together, and works flamboyantly well.
He’s hardly a stranger to class A drugs. But as he takes the lead in a movie about a cocaine baron, Johnny Depp says he has put his ‘years of confusion’ behind him. He talks to <b>Danny Leigh</b>.
movie of the week Movies about movie-making are always interesting for the sidelight they throw on the process, though they do run the risk of self-indulgence. Federico Fellini’s classic 8 1/2 is in part about such self-indulgence, showing us a confused filmmaker swamped by fantasy as much as by the travails of getting a movie […]
Deon Potgieter boxing South African boxing was poised to become a major player on the international boxing scene following Hassim Rahman’s dumping of Lennox Lewis at Carnival City last month. The value of controlling the universal heavyweight champion would have had untold benefits for a country that has not had a good run on the […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Two of the BBC’s best comedies are showing currently on BBC Prime. The first is Yes, Prime Minister, the follow-up to Yes, Minister, the comedy series about British minister of administrative affairs Jim Hacker’s career. He is now prime minister, followed closely into office by the impeccably hypocritical Sir Humphrey Appleby, now […]
Nawaal Deane In a scenario disturbingly reminiscent of apartheid policing, Andrew Taylor claims two policemen tortured him on Tuesday in Northam in the Northern Province. They dropped all charges and released him the next day. Taylor claims two policemen from the Pretoria murder and robbery unit took him to a private game farm outside Pretoria, […]