THOUSANDS of mourners attended the burial on Tuesday of Zambian opposition politician Paul Tembo, who was murdered shortly before he was due to testify against three ministers in a government corruption case. Tembo, who was shot on Friday in front of his wife and family, was buried in his small hometown Kabwe, a mining town […]
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The law has not changed, but the British view of porn has. We are no longer shocked and neither is the censor, so sex shops and filmmakers are preparing for a boom time.
Bertold Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a widowed, sixtysomething German émigré and athletics trainer. He lives like a pig in a cottage on an Afrikaans couple’s farm, has no interest in women – black or otherwise – and never shaves. This is possible, but highly implausible.
<i>Sweet November</i>, the biggest release of the week, is so bad that there is very little to be said about it. It’s not even worth pulling apart, since it falls apart anyway as you watch it, if it was ever together in the first place.
Glenda Daniels The Department of Labour has slammed employers for using “racist assumptions” as excuses not to hire black people and to test prospective employees for HIV/Aids. In the latest Department of Labour equity report, 31% of employers cited HIV/Aids as a barrier to implementing equity. The equity legislation was formulated by the government to […]
Glenda Daniels The Johannesburg High Court this week found in favour of a handyman who worked at the brothel The Ranch, in a civil case brought against the Ministry of Safety and Security. Matthew Palmer claimed R800 000 in damages for brutal assault and unlawful arrest and detention when the police raided The Ranch in […]
Lots still to play for in Soccer City double-header Ntuthuko Maphumulo The South African soccer season will end this weekend with a great double-header. (Of course, boardroom wrangling could force a further match, a replay between Bloemfontein Celtic and Bush Bucks but more of that later.) The two games to be staged at FNB stadium […]
Barry Streek South Africa holds the world record for the recycling of tin cans, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa has disclosed. The “Collect-a-Can” programme recycled as much as 63% of the cans used in the country and provides informal employment for an estimated 30 000 people. “The sterling work being done […]
On Tuesday, exactly 20 years after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), South Africa’s minister of health announced the government has no plans to make anti-retroviral drugs available in public hospitals. The country’s share of HIV/Aids cases is now approximately 11,5% of the world total Belinda Beresford The government’s persistent reluctance to provide […]