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/ 22 January 2001
There’s nothing tame about Lars von Trier. Even his car is brazenly penile and his latest movie is a harrowing musical. Danny Leigh meets the madman of European cinema.
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/ 22 January 2001
Still playing in the minor key of last year’s <i>Sweet and Lowdown</i>, Woody Allen has neatly tossed together the good-hearted comedy that is <i>Small Time Crooks</i>. He plays a rather dim-witted criminal whose cunning masterplans are surpassed by his wife’s skill at making cookies – and life takes a whole new turn into nouveaux riches.
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/ 22 January 2001
THE South African Air Force has stepped in to help a young black woman achieve her dream of flying a Boeing 747 one day. Asnath Matsobane, 21, of Rosenkrans village in the Northern Province, needs to clock up 400 flight hours if she wants to fly large passenger planes, but she ran out of money […]
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/ 22 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Monday BETWEEN 150 and 250 people died – some beheaded and burned alive – in clashes last week in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia, humanitarian sources there said Monday, considerably raising a previous toll. Earlier reports said 59 people had died on Friday in clashes arising […]
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/ 22 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Monday IN a case that raised international concerns about human rights in Nigeria, a teenage mother found guilty by an Islamic court of pre-marital sex has been flogged 100 times, a senior official said on Monday. Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, found guilty in September of the Islamic offence of “zina” or pre-marital […]
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/ 22 January 2001
MICHAEL MATARI and PHILLIP NKOSI, Thohoyandou | Monday A GROUP of more than 24_000 former Venda homeland officials is demanding that government repay them an estimated R1bn in unpaid pensions – and they allege that at least one local banking institution has withheld R358m that was invested with it in 1992. The group, the Dabalorivhuwa […]
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/ 22 January 2001
THE SA Police Service’s Commercial Crime Unit has in the past three weeks confiscated counterfeit and stolen computer software worth almost R15m, says computer software giant Microsoft. Police raided a computer vendor that supplied the Mpumalanga education department with 347 PCs, as well an Erasmia-based computer company where counterfeit and stolen software was found.
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/ 22 January 2001
ILDA JACOBS, Washington DC | Monday A SOUTH African woman’s 25-day hunger strike has succeeded in forcing the California Department of Corrections to admit that her husband was wrongly classified as a gangster. Lara Johnson, 35, originally from Volksrust in Mpumalanga, married African American Demian Johnson in a prison waiting room three years ago after […]
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/ 22 January 2001
A MAN accused of driving drunk and crashing into a minibus full of school children was let off the hook in the Nelspruit District Court because the police failed to take statements from the survivors. Carl Furter, 34, was never asked to plead on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Police allegedly […]