Michael Odell CD OFTHEWEEK You’ll have noticed that writing poetry in coffee shops, plundering jumble-sale threads and being love-battered yet plucky is now “in”. But just four years ago, if you were a female R&B act, you wore knee-high leather boots and demanded regular oral sex and housekeeping from your “nigga”, safe in the knowledge […]
Do we have a right to dismiss them as racists, as upholders of white privilege, not supportive of change and reconciliation? asks Rhoda Kadalie.
Shooting the scene — Kevin Carter shoots Ken Oosterbroek shooting Kevin shooting Ken and bang-bang, they’re dead.
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION Against my better judgement and the advice of several friends I had a look at the newest ordeal to have sprung from the SABC’s light entertainment division: Greed, or the “neetch for greetch” as its presenter, Revin John, would have it. At first I thought there was something wrong with his microphone […]
A GRIEVING family has accused a Nigerian minister of lying over the circumstances of a car crash last week in which a newly-wed couple were killed – and leaving the pregnant young woman to die by the roadside. The family of Victor (28) and Naomi (29) Umoren, killed along with their driver in the December […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Newcastle | Friday KWAZULU-Natal wildlife rangers have been forced to kill an aggressive bull elephant after it refused to be driven back into the park from which it had escaped. The shooting follows the first large-scale escape from the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi park by elephants since they were introduced to in 1980. The tusks were […]
SIX Moroccan fishermen have gone missing after their small boats were swamped in heavy seas off Morocco’s Atlantic coast, regional maritime officials said. The men’s vessels had sunk on Tuesday during foul weather conditions near the port of Sidi Ifni. Another 36 fishermen who had experienced trouble in the same area were rescued by a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Blantyre | Friday THE high-profile trial of a former Malawian cabinet minister facing corruption charges has opened amid tight security and high tension. Brown Mpinganjira, who had been widely tipped to succeed President Bakili Muluzi as leader of the governing United Democratic Front (UDF), faces up to 12 years in prison for his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Johannesburg | Friday FEARS that the cholera epidemic ravaging KwaZulu-Natal might spread to the rest of South Africa have heightened with reports of the disease in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and in neighbouring Swaziland. At least six people have died in Swaziland after the epidemic crossed into the tiny kingdom from KwaZulu-Natal, where 57 people […]
102 Dalmations. She’s back. Cruella de Vil (Glenn Close) re-emerges with a social conscience that lasts a full 10 minutes. Representing us ordinary, good folk is the pretty probation officer who will keep an eye on Cruella but keeps Dalmations. Wonderfully surreal, it’s a pity that Cruella’s comeuppence takes so long, because by then the […]