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/ 28 October 2001
THOUSANDS of people marched through central London on Saturday to protest against the US and British bombing of Afghanistan. Police said about five thousand demonstrators, chanting ”No war, we want peace,” made their way from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square. ”We are sending a very clear message to (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair and (US […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Big-budget movie of the week: Forget the advance publicity, which makes America’s Sweethearts look rather ordinary, and go and enjoy the spectacle of Hollywood laughing at itself, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 26 October 2001
Low-budget movie of the week:</b> <i>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</i> is the sort of stack-heeled walk on the wild side that <i>Velvet Goldmine</i> should have been and yet never quite was; a posturing film glamour that’s at once funny and sad, brash and sensitive, writes Xan Brooks.
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/ 26 October 2001
channel vision Robert Kirby Eager readers and Vivid decoder owners will by now have realised that, with their usual dogged enthusiasm, Sentech and the SABC have now entered the next stage of their disastrous satellite television broadcasting life cycle the one where they turn fully into a worm. As usual they are handling their newest […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Marianne Merten How do you make mathematics and science relevant to youngsters? At the MTN ScienCentre that’s easy: through interactive displays, maths sleep-overs and workshops where children can build their own electronic burglar alarm or explore polymer chemistry by making slime, rubber balls and foam. The MTN ScienCentre hopes to demystify science by encouraging innovation […]
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/ 26 October 2001
The MEC for Transport in KwaZulu- Natal and Chair of the African National Congress in that province, S’bu Ndebele, is not under investigation for alleged criminal activities. In the Mail & Guardian of October 12 we quoted Scorpions’ spokesperson Sipho Ngwema as naming Ndebele as one of a number of individual politicians under criminal investigation […]
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/ 26 October 2001
BuyAfrica is helping local craftsmen and women to ply their trade over the Internet Jubie Matlou Hundreds of rural craftsmen and women who ply their trade of making curios and artefacts in their backyards never thought they would enter the export market and supply the world with South African cultural symbols such as beads, dolls […]
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/ 26 October 2001
Ngwako Modjadji As senior students across the country sit for their matric exams, the commercial crime investigative unit in the Eastern Cape has uncovered an alleged scam involving forged matric certificates to obtain government jobs. A senior official has appeared in court on charges of fraud and forgery. The scam comes in the wake of […]
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/ 26 October 2001
The stable of trainer Terry Lowe has shown fair form since his return to regular racing some months ago and a nice prize could go his way on Saturday in the R200000 grade 2 Elevation Stakes over 2000m at Gosforth Park. Lowe sends out five-year-old Polo Classic, who was runner-up in both the South African […]
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/ 26 October 2001
It must be a long time since the Mail & Guardian published an article as pedantic as the one by Sipho Seepe (“Language, truth and logic”, October 5). He makes all kinds of outrageous epistemological claims in a pompous response to Evidence wa ka Ngobeni’s simple suggestion that Seepe’s conclusion that there is no difference […]