b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK: The Motorcycle Diaries is Walter Salles’s fervent, dreamily reverent tale of Ernesto ”Che” Guevara’s legendary gap year, and tells of Che’s pre-revolutionary existence, in its pristine state of idealism, passion and sheer vibrant youth. Peter Bradshaw reviews.
They try to kill goats by staring at them, attempt to walk through walls by concentrating on lining up the atomic particles in their own bodies with the atomic spaces in the wall writes Albert Scardino.
MPs will, for the first time, consider resolutions calling for the sacking of several magistrates convicted of crimes, or who persistently demonstrate incompetence in their work. Parliament’s test of the existing system emerged against the background of intensifying controversy over reforms to the oversight of judicial officers.
Frank Williams will be absent from the trackside at Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and, though this is not a unique occurrence for the 62-year-old team principal, it is certainly highly unusual. ”Saving money,” he said wistfully with a faint smile by way of explanation, and he is right.
Stuart Baxter need not worry too much about his team scoring goals in the last round of the 2006 African Nations and World Cup qualifiers. The Bafana Bafana coach has unearthed a gem in the young and talented Katlego Mphela. The 20-year-old striker, who now plays for Strasbourg in the French league, scored three goals over the weekend.
Former anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak is to use his considerable oratorical powers to persuade community and church leaders to support a golf and lifestyle estate development near George. The Lagoon Bay Lifestyle Estate is chaired by South Africa’s former ambassador to Washington and now prominent businessman Franklin Sonn.
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett on Thursday became the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling — 67 hours and 37 000km after taking off in his spindly-looking, experimental jet. Fossett (60) already holds the record for flying solo around the globe in a balloon.
Zimbabweans feel South African President Thabo Mbeki has betrayed them, compromised his efforts to lead the search for a solution to their political crisis and openly sided with their dictatorial president. Mbeki said this week that Zimbabwe had complied with all the regional protocols meant to ensure fairness in its parliamentary elections.
"When I was about nine years old my father stuck me in the Rio Cinema on the corner of President and Sauer streets, while he worked as a journalist at <i>The Star</i>. I was left to my own devices and the cinema was as good a place as any to feed my fantasy." Teddy Mattera experienced the bioscope, and a community’s tears.
<i>Send & Receive</i> is one where girls get tipsy after two glasses of wine, where men are either good mates or scoundrels, and where the only black person in the novel speaks English with "a faint American accent" writes Chris Roper.