In the third match of the tour, Lions captain Martin Johnson will be making his first tour appearance RUGBY:Steve Morris IT has been a while coming, but finally we will get our first live look at the player the pre-tour publicity has given Martin Johnson to be when he at last assumes the mantle of […]
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 […]
CRICKET:Mike Selvey STABBING international cricket captains from long distance, Mike Atherton might recall, has been a peculiarly English disease. But now Australia, riddled with self-doubt after a disastrous start to their tour, including the 3-0 whitewash in the Texaco series, have been infected. Their chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns this week said that if the […]
Natasha Walter HUMAN CROQUET by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, R79,95) KATE ATKINSON is that rare thing, a writer who starts off her writing career with absolute certainty, hearing her own music and singing her own songs. This is only her second novel, her follow-up to Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which won the Whitbread Prize […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM SOUTH African conservation groups are offering paramilitary training across Southern Africa, and making a financial killing from it, according to a report released this week by the Network of Independent Monitors. Although the report does not detail precisely what training has been given and to whom, it names several local organisations as being […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM PARASTATAL Development Bank of Southern Africa is on the verge of securing a R750-million credit line from the African Development Bank, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. Manuel added that the Land Bank and Industrial Development Corporation are also seeking loans. Speaking at the Afrivan Development Bank annual meeting, Manuel said the […]