A CHARTER plane carrying more than 250 German tourists made an emergency landing at Kenya’s second city of Mombassa on Thursday after one of its engines sucked in a bird and caught fire, officials said. The fire broke out shortly after the Boeing 767 belonging to Germany’s LTU airline took off for Duesseldorf. Airport firefighters […]
THE split within Zambia’s ruling party – over whether to support a possible third term for the president – has deepened as the party suspended eight of its lawmakers and police banned a rally by opponents of the issue. But opponents to President Frederick Chiluba’s re-election bid, currently barred by both the national and the […]
MICHAEL KAHN, Carson City, Nevada | Sunday SHOUTING ”I killed nobody” but refusing to ask for a stay that would have saved his life, South African Sebastian Bridges was executed by lethal injection on Saturday for the 1997 killing of his estranged wife’s boyfriend. Bridges, 37, was pronounced dead at 0418 GMT ON Sunday, moments […]
PAUL KIRK, Durban | Friday ARMSCOR bosses are set to make a killing by buying arms from companies of which they are shareholders or directors. This week the Mail & Guardian obtained Armscor documents showing that Armscor chair Ron Haywood is a director of another company, Dynamic Cables, which is among the front-runners to supply […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday DURBAN Unicity Mayor Obed Mlaba has lashed out at the city’s ”coconuts”, saying they needed to be cracked once and for all for their colonial hang-ups and un-African attitudes, the Independent on Saturday newspaper reported. ”It’s high time black South Africans stopped being coconuts,” the newspaper quoted Mlaba as saying […]
THE confirmed death toll from the collapse of a Nigerian mosque has risen to 12 after police recovered the bodies of seven children. It was not clear how many victims remained under the rubble, but neighbours said some 20 children had been in the building in Mushin, a shantytown in the commercial capital Lagos, when […]
It would be easy to dismiss the late John Berry’s cinematic adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play <b>Boesman and Lena</b>; those American accents and their perfect white teeth; the fact that Danny Glover in no way resembles anything approaching a San-Bushman or a "Hotnot"; the geographical problem of talking Eastern Cape when we’re clearly in the Western Cape; but that would be missing quite a few points.
Neil LaBute’s first two films, <i>In the Company of Men</i> and <i>Your Friends and Neighbours</i>, were the blackest of black comedies – labyrinths of sexual betrayal that showed men and women (but particularly men) at their lowest and nastiest. His new film, <b>Nurse Betty</b>, has a different tone altogether; it is offbeat and edged with darkness, but is lighter, sweeter and gentler than one might have expected.
At the age of 10 Liv Tyler realised the man she called daddy was not her father. At 14 she started modelling; at 16 she became an actor. Did it all turn her into yet another Hollywood brat? She talks to Danny Leigh.
There comes a time for all actors of integrity to shine and that time has come for Ian Holm. What makes his performance in <b>Joe Gould’s Secret</b> all the more poignant is that the character he portrays is a very rare kind of actor himself.
Joe Gould was cursed by a time, place and perception that no longer applies, but it left the man so devastated that he became an artist in spite of what he said he was: a writer.