The Oscars are fast approaching, and the official site at www.oscar.com or www.oscars.com, has all the nominations, while Yahoo! is providing links to further coverage at www.movies.yahoo.com/oscars/. The American Institute of Physics has assembled a fascinating and comprehensive resource worthy of a visit and exploration from anyone interested in our understanding of the nature of […]
No one installs the windows in a house before they have built the foundations and the walls – and yet that is precisely what government is doing with its 20 new rape courts. No prosecution can succeed without an effective police investigation, but nothing has been done to boost police capacity – despite Thoko Majokweni, […]
A year ago Peter Hayes got together with Gaetan Schmidt to see whether food could translate into theatre Guy Willoughby Peter Hayes, whose seriously yummy two- hander Play with Your Food opened at Johannesburg’s Civic Theatre this week, picks through a piled-up plate of sweet potato, eggplant and avocado in our seriously cool Cape Town […]
Stephen Gray Midway through Michael Frayn’s eloquent, passionate play Copenhagen, one wonders if there could possibly be anything further to be talked through. Two Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicists, the Danish Niels Bohr and his former German assistant Werner Heisenberg, have batted out how their theories of uncertainty, of complementarity and quanta have intersected, diverged. They […]
Julia Beffon Standing in front of me in the Wits Theatre box office queue were a middle- aged couple. The woman stepped up to the window and asked for two tickets. ”For which show?” asked the young man behind the glass. ”There’s more than one?” ”Yes, madam.” ”Er, that one,” she said, slightly flustered, pointing […]
WHAT’S NEW The Palm Pilot has become a must-have fashion accessory as well as a pocket-sized organiser for millions of people. It is a combined electronic notepad, address book, diary and To Do list with facilities to download e-mail and other goodies. The latest version is the Palm 3c, which hit the streets this week. […]
Sharon Krum BODY LANGUAGE For a while now, Americans have been galvanised by a television game show that ended with the winner marrying a woman he had never met. Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? featured as its ultimate prize not a bank account but a rich bachelor. Yet after millions of Americans watched 50 […]
ALISTER BULL, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm THE Reserve Bank said on Friday it had discussed special circumstances with the government that would excuse it for failing to meet the country’s recently adopted inflation targets. But it stressed that these so-called ”escape clauses” could only be invoked if the event was entirely beyond the Bank’s control […]
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa’s volatile stock market will take its cue from Wall Street next week, although the global return to ”old-style” commodity shares should continue to support key indices, analysts said on Friday. Africa’s biggest bourse put in a disappointing performance at the end of a week coloured by a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni on Friday robustly defended the country’s pursuit of lower inflation and dismissed calls to toss out inflation targeting in favour of a dash for growth. Economists debating with Mboweni in a radio programme argued that employment — in a country where a third of […]