TWO officials from Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been abducted, apparently by pro-government war veterans, MDC spokesman Learnmore Jongwe said on Sunday. MDC parliamentarian Abedinico Bhebhe was kidnapped on Saturday from a petrol station in Nkayi, 260km southwest of Harare, Jongwe said. Joel Sithole, the MDC candidate for council elections in the […]
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has cancelled his trip to Jakarta for the G-15 summit of developing nations after one of his top ministers died in a car crash, the state-run Sunday Mail reported. Mugabe was due to leave on Sunday for the May 30-31 summit in Indonesia. He cancelled the trip after defense minister Moven […]
A UNITED States coastguard vessel was standing by a crippled car-carrier in heavy weather off South Africa’s southeast coast Saturday, a spokesman said. Terry Taylor, spokesman for the port authority in Port Elizabeth, said the USS Sherman, which happened to be in the area, responded to a South African appeal to aid the Panamanian-registered Modern […]
ALMOST a third of women in Mpumalanga have at some point been physically abused by their partners, says a study published in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal. The study, by the Medical Research Council’s gender and health group, also found that just over a quarter of women in the Eastern Cape […]
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>.