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/ 17 November 2000
Last week about 150 members of the film and TV industry met at the Sandton Convention Centre with their European counterparts for the first ever European/South Africa Film Symposium. Organised by the National Film and Video Foundation and the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology at a cost of R1,2-million the three-day symposium was a think-tank on how the industry can develop.
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/ 17 November 2000
The transatlantic love affair between England and America is perfectly understandable. England has the weight of history behind it, while America is its most successful former colony. The language, with all its economic and cultural implications, has travelled from a green island to a wealthy mainland to the ever-expanding boundaries of outer space.
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/ 17 November 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday CHEMICAL warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson and others involved in the SADF’s chemical and biological warfare programme were “despondent and upset” after throwing millions of rands worth of drugs and mortars into the sea, the Pretoria High Court has heard. Mr H, a military intelligence officer who may not be […]
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/ 17 November 2000
BRIAN LIGOMEKA, Blantyre | Friday MALAWI’S multi-million dollar tobacco industry finally admitted this week that it uses illegal cheap child labour on the country’s massive plantations. Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA) vice president Fredgstone Thangwi publicly conceded that the industry, which accounts for almost 90% of Malawi’s formal employment in the agriculture sector, used some […]
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/ 17 November 2000
CHARLES MANGWIRO, Maputo | Friday MOZAMBIQUE’S Human Rights League (LDH) has blamed police for sparking last week’s bloody riots in the northern city of Nampula by allegedly firing on demonstrators without provocation. The League’s northern regional representatives claimed in a report that police confronted opposition Renamo party supporters outside a local soccer stadium last Thursday […]
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/ 17 November 2000
SEVENTY Kenyans have died after drinking an adulterated batch of moonshine popular for its 10 US cent price tag, police and medical sources said. The illegal brew, known as chang’aa, has landed 260 other people, mostly from Nairobi’s plethora of slums, in hospital. Many have been blinded by the adulterated concoction, which attacks the central […]
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/ 17 November 2000
JEREMY LOVELL and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday THE South African government has defused a dispute with tribal leaders that threatened to derail next month’s local elections – but now faces a new court challenge to postpone the poll from the Afrikaner enclave of Orania, which stands to lose its autonomy. Orania, in the […]
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/ 17 November 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday A RASTAFARIAN, who has been banned from practicing law in South Africa because he smokes marijuana, is leading the fight to have the drug legalised for religious purposes in the country’s highest court. Gareth Prince, who has fought several court battles to be allowed to practice law, told the Constitutional […]
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/ 16 November 2000
WATERPUMPS that are turned by children playing on roundabouts will be installed in 120 rural communities in South Africa, the inventor of the system said this week. Roundabout Outdoor director Trevor Field signed an agreement with the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Ronnie Kasrils, and the US Kaiser Family Foundation this week to install […]