A PRETORIA High Court judge on Thursday accused Communications Minister Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri of lying when she claimed that a senior advocate appointed by her had merely attended proceedings of the SA Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra) as ”an interested member of the public”, Beeld newspaper reports. Judge Hekkie Daniels made the remark during argument by […]
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Cannes, France – Members of the jury for the 54th Cannes film festival said on Wednesday awards would favour emotional films as opposed to intellectual ones. ”We don’t have to make movies for the intellect. I would like us to choose films that talk with talent, emotion and professionalism,” Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann told a packed news conference on the festival’s opening day.
Peter Bradshaw picks his top ten from this year’s Cannes film festival.
The making of the film was little short of a disaster. The director’s father died on the first day of the shoot. The leading lady smashed a knee and broke two ribs. A 60ft tall replica elephant was crushed on the set.
Guardian writer Amy Fleming is at Cannes in the company of three young British producers intent on raising funds for their next feature. In the first of four diary reports, she anticipates life at the business end of the world’s most glamorous film festival </font><p>
NEW Zealand Post’s international consultancy unit expressed surprise on Wednesday that its strategic management contract at the South African Post Office (SAPO) might be terminated. The Post Office’s board had asked Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri to end the strategic management contract with New Zealand Post, South Africa’s Communications ministry said in a statement on Monday. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE has stopped making payments on its loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in another sign of the nation’s rapidly deteriorating economic crisis, the privately owned Financial Gazette reported on Thursday. Citing unnamed foreign and local financial officials, the business weekly said the government had stopped making payments on […]
A HOLIDAYMAKER was attacked by a three metre great white shark on East London’s Eastern Beach on Tuesday. David van Staden, 26, a South African working in New Zealand, who is on holiday in the Eastern Cape, was surfing with Natasha Bastenie when he was attacked but escaped with 10 stitches to his leg. Describing […]
SOUTH African shares opened firmer on Thursday, helped by higher bullion price and a firmer rand, dealers said. The benchmark all-share index was up 0.25% or 22.7 points to 8,948.4, helped by buying across the board, they said. “The gold price is a little bit better. Apparently a hedge is being unwound in the Australian […]