If you are bored with being the irregular dependent of a funding agency and want a secure future with a suburban subsidy and medical aid to cover the costs of garlic, the department of Arts and culture is the place for you, writes Mike van Graan.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski on Friday won his libel suit against the publisher of Vanity Fair magazine over an article that accused him of propositioning a woman while on the way to the funeral of his murdered wife. Polanski was awarded £50 000 (R577 000) in damages.
The selection of nine black players in the 22-man Springbok rugby squad and six in the starting line-up shows South Africa is moving towards ”normal sport in a normal society”, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki wished the Springbok team success in their clash against the Australian Wallabies at Ellis Park on Saturday.
The Zimbabwe government is studying a United Nations report on a controversial government campaign of shack and home demolitions and President Robert Mugabe will respond to it at an ”appropriate time”, it was reported on Friday.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has ordered police to arrest miners who vandalise property while continuing a strike for higher pay and better work conditions, a presidential spokesperson said on Friday. Striking miners on Thursday set off explosives at the biggest copper mine, which caused extensive damage.
British Muslims said they fear police are operating under a ”shoot to kill” policy after a man was gunned down at an underground train station on Friday following a new wave of bomb attacks. Police have confirmed that officers pursued and shot a man who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday insisted a draft Constitution pushed through Parliament by his ruling coalition will improve Kenya, though protesters who clashed with police as lawmakers debated the charter complain it gives him too much power. Lawmakers voted 102 to 61 to approve the draft Constitution.
London police released on Friday closed-circuit television images of four men they are "urgently" seeking in connection with the attempted suicide bombings the day before on London’s public transport system. The grainy images showed casually dressed men — one wearing a dark-blue "New York" sweatshirt.
Police were on Friday questioning the wife of slain Free State official Noby Ngombane. Police spokesperson Superintendent Annelie Wrensch confirmed that Nokwanda Ngombane and two other women — believed to be her relatives — were taken in for questioning.
It took a big budget and lots of research to create the R40-million <i>Drum</i>, the film about the historic 1950s magazine and its ground-breaking investigative reporter, Henry Nxumalo, director Zola Maseko tells Khubu Meth.