INTELLIGENCE Minister Joe Nhlanhla has suffered a mild stroke and his poition will be assumed with immediate effect by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna. Nhlanhla’s condition was confirmed by a spokesman in President Mbeki’s office, Joel Netshitenzhe, who said Nhlanhla is in a stable condition at a Johannesburg hospital. Doctors attending to Nhlanhla expect him to […]
SCIENTISTS have made a breakthrough that could pave the way for a treatment for the deadly Ebola disease. Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, have found a protein manufactured by the Ebola virus that disrupts the cells that line the blood vessel walls. It is believed […]
FORMER Mpumalanga director general Coleman Nyathi has met with Home Affairs investigators in Pretoria in an attempt to head off a looming deportation order. Nyathi was forced to resign last week after Home Affairs hand delivered a letter warning he would be deported to Zimbabwe within 14 days unless he proved his South African citizenship. […]
British Airways said it had found no evidence of a fuel leak in one of its supersonic Concordes, which made a precautionary landing at Gander, in Canada. The Concorde, carrying 66 people from London to New York — including entertainers Tony Bennett and George Benson — was diverted to Canada two hours into its three-hour […]
A PANEL of legal experts will decide the future of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Williams and Pieter Strydom after publication of an interim report on match-fixing next week, United Cricket Board (UCB) managing director Ali Bacher said. Judge Edwin King is due to submit the interim report to President Thabo Mbeki on August […]
TWO well-known media personalities appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after the Pretoria child protection unit allegedly found child pornography at their Randburg home. Police spokesman Superintendent Chris Wilken said radio personality Tasco Luc de Reuck, 27, and film critic, Leon van Nierop, 47, were each granted bail of R5000 each. They were […]
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Iranian films seem to be about childhood innocence, but they’re really a critical look at adult mores argues Jonathan Jones.
The offerings at the Iranian Film Festival open a window into Iranian society, and Iranians. It is, however, a shame that much of the minutest details will inevitably be lost on film-goers who will not understand their relationship with the wider plot. From the ritual of buying a goldfish for Nowruz or new year, in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10:15am NATIONAL Sorghum Breweries (NSB), one of South Africa’s first black-owned companies, has for a first time in years shown a profit. Jaishankar Ramchandran, a representative of the Indian industrial group, United Breweries (UB), NSB’s largest shareholder, said a reduction in overheads, increased productivity and capacity utilisation had resulted in […]