FRIDAY, 4.00PM FOUR people were arrested on Friday after police and Mpumalanga Parks Board investigators raided two Johannesburg houses and seized 45 endangered cycads stolen from nature reserves near the Swazi border. Seven of the stolen lebomboensis cycads were implanted with microchips, allowing investigators to track their movement from the Mananga cycad reserve to Johannesburg. […]
ANDY WARHOL once advised that you should always carry two drinks with you at cocktail parties. That way, if you run into someone icky, you can excuse yourself by saying you have to take a drink to your friend. The snack affair after the Edgars Club/Boss Models Fashion Model of the Year Award last Friday […]
MARX and Mao were not on the agenda at last week’s WEF meeting, but Deng Xiao Ping did put in an appearance, albeit obliquely. Discussing his country’s policy on privatisation, President Frederick Chiluba of Zambia quoted Deng: “I do not care whether cats are black or white, so long as they catch mice. That is […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: The candidates for the position of Transvaal Cricket Board chief executive officer have not been made public, but an annoucement was made by the board that this will not be an affirmative action appointment. TCB president Gerald Ritchie said on Thursday: “If the person we select happens to be from one of the […]
IF you include his comedy In the Bleak Midwinter and his appearance as Iago to Laurence Fishburne’s Othello, Hamlet is Kenneth Branagh’s fifth screen engagement with Shakespeare, and it is by some way the best film he has directed. Conceived on an epic scale, it is shot in 70mm, uses the full four-hour text and […]
Not only the national housing director should be changed, but also the national housing and urban policy, argues Mzwanele Mayekiso MAIL & GUARDIAN reporters recently spotted a tidal wave of urbanisation (“A human flood is drowning Gauteng”, May 16 to 22) and asked whether millions of shack settlement residents will ever “become taxpaying citizens who […]
ANDREW WORSDALE speaks to the makers of Jump the Gun – and weighs up the reactions to the film LOCALLY produced movie Jump the Gun, a gritty look at life in the underbelly of Johannesburg through the eyes of five different characters ranging from a “sparkie” to a township gangster, has been stirring up a […]
FRIDAY, 8.00AM THE Democratic Party in Gauteng claims that the depature of Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale from politics (see below) has been prompted by in-fighting in his cabinet, in particular against a rival faction led by safety and security head Jessie Duarte. The Gauteng ANC has said only that it will discuss the premier’s plans […]
Robin McKie THERE are few more colourful characters in science today than the flamboyant, cigar- smoking Italian Carlo Rubbia – a Nobel laureate and human dynamo, Committed, brilliant and famously touchy, his personality has dominated the study of fundamental physics for decades. Think of him as the Pavarotti of particle physics. At the age of […]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Hazel Friedman IF the success of an exhibition can be measured by audience attendance figures, the World Press Photo Awards at the Standard Bank Gallery belongs somewhere on the Richter scale. A week after its opening, the cavernous gallery space became a thoroughfare, beckoning to a public normally intimidated by an art world that […]