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/ 21 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday THE Jukskei River running through the Alexandra township in Johannesburg has tested positive for cholera, threatening the millions of people in townships next to the river who are dependent on it for their daily water. Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils this week confirmed that the river tested positive. […]
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/ 21 January 2001
A 41-year-old unemployed man who was caught having sex with his dog has appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court. The case against Petrus Moleta was postponed to next week for further investigation. He is to remain in custody until then. Moleta was arrested after passersby reported seeing a man having sex with a greyhound under […]
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/ 21 January 2001
AN outbreak of lumpy skin disease (LSD) has killed 100 cattle in the past week in Malawi’s central district of Ntcheu, a veterinary official said. Bernett Lurwa said the cows had died of the acute viral disease, which swells knee joints and other parts of the infected beasts. Lurwa said the disease threatens 25_000 other […]
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/ 21 January 2001
VILLAGERS in northeastern Algeria reported rocks and smoke spewing from craters in an area rocked by an earthquake two months ago, the official Algerian news agency APS reported. Local officials said the previously inactive craters erupted for more than four hours late Wednesday in Ras Aichet, near Djellal in the Khenchela region 500km southeast of […]
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/ 21 January 2001
A Sudanese court has jailed an editor-in-chief until her newspaper publishes an apology for a ”defamatory” article alleging financial mismanagement in the courts, her newspaper, Al-Rai Al-Akher, reported on Thursday. The independent daily said Amal Abbas had been transferred to Omdurman prison for women, near Khartoum. The judiciary recently filed a lawsuit against the newspaper […]
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/ 21 January 2001
LIBERIA has recalled its ambassador from Guinea, accusing its neighbour of backing rebel attacks on its territory during months of border fighting and mistreating its diplomats. A foreign ministry statement noted four recent rebel incursions into Liberia’s northern Lofa county. The statement also referred to the alleged rape of Liberian refugees in Guinea, the beating […]
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/ 19 January 2001
When the end credits of <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> began to roll at Cannes, I at first thought the applause and cheering for this Scandinavian musical, made in Sweden and Denmark in a form of English, to be ironic. How could anyone have admired or been moved by this tedious, banal, incompetent movie?
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/ 19 January 2001
Andrew Worsdale visits the set of Darrell Roodt’s ‘Mission Impossible without a budget’.
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/ 19 January 2001
With <b>Dancer in the Dark</b> it is as though Lars von Trier set himself the challenge of making a musical from the most unpromising materials possible. Here we have the tragic or melodramatic story of Selma Jezkova (Björk), a Czech immigrant, a single mother with a young son, working in a factory somewhere in middle America.
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/ 19 January 2001
David Le Page Takeuchi was a tiny robot built from two cockroach legs and a silicon chip. An innocuous cyborg, he toddled for up to an hour at a time across flat surfaces at the University of Tokyo, where researchers built him in 1996. The little machine had a conventional silicon chip micro-controller, an artificial […]