At the centre of <i>Finding Forrester</i> is a rather touching story with excellent dialogue dying to burst out of the boundaries imposed upon it by its pretentious director, Gus Van Sant. It is, essentially, a remake of his <i>Good Will Hunting</i> in that it’s once again about the friendship between an old man and a young boy.
DURBANITES should stop being negative about their city, Durban unicity mayor Obed Mlaba said on Wednesday. “We should stop comparing ourselves to cities like Cape Town,” he said. “In fact, Cape Town can stay with its moffies and its gays.” Mlaba made these remarks during his address at the announcement of the 10-member board of […]
BUCHIZYA MSETEKA, Pretoria | Thursday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday the economic empowerment of South Africa’s black majority was moving too slowly and vowed to back programmes to accelerate the process. Mbeki told a news conference after two-hour talks with the Black Business Council he was personally disappointed with the progress visible seven years […]
ABOUT 40 top managers at the SAPS, including national commissioner Jackie Selebi, on Wednesday received awards for their outstanding service. Selebi and the other senior officers were granted the “SAPS Star for Outstanding Service” award, Sally de Beer, communications director in Selebi’s office said in Pretoria. She said Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete bestowed […]
FOUR Egyptians have been arrested for trying to sell several ancient artefacts. Police found a 40cm high black basalt statue of a pharoanic queen and a 20cm statuette of a cat being smuggled in a car. The four occupants – a diving instructor, a tourist company worker, a driver and a mechanic – admitted they […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday A BOUNCE in banks, coupled with expectations of a rally on Wall Street, joined forces to lead South African stocks to a 2% stronger close on Wednesday – the highest finish in four weeks. In what analysts called a catch-up after recently underperforming the overall market, banks hurdled 5%, lifting […]
HUNDREDS of angry demonstrators chanted and danced outside a South African court reinforced with razor-wire on Wednesday as nine white rugby players appeared on charges of murdering a black teenage poacher. Magistrate Ronnie Rambau ordered the nine, all members of the northern Noordelikes Rugby Club who have been in the cells since their arrest on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday THIS weeks fatal stampede at a Johannesburg football match has darkened many South Africans’ hopes of winning the right to host the World Cup in 2010, but everyone from President Thabo Mbeki down maintains it will make no difference. The stampede at Ellis Park stadium came as a tidal wave […]
PUBLIC threats directed at a journalist is the behaviour expected of thugs in Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, and not of a spokesman of the African National Congress, says the man in the middle of a furore sparked by calling President Mbeki a womaniser. Writing in his regular column in The Star newspaper, journalist Max du […]
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