Andrew Worsdale Chris Eyre’s debut feature film deservedly won both the Audience Award and the film- makers’ trophy at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the leading celebration of American Independent film-making. Based on the books The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals is a winning mix of comedy and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 4.45pm. SOUTH African centre Andre Snyman says the world champions are being cheated by referees and has slammed the way they are being treated by rugby officials. The 25-times capped centre, in Britain with the rest of the touring South African squad, said: “We feel penalised more than any other […]

Jim White : A Second Look Brian Lara is renowned in cricket as an active disciple of the Geoffrey Boycott school: nothing matters as much as himself, or rather his bank balance. Yet in an affair which initially seemed little more than another piece of financial brinkmanship by the world’s most gifted batsman, it is […]

Joan Smith : First Person Why don’t women go cruising? When the media is full of the shortage of single men, why is this method of finding partners, briefly at least, unthinkable for women? The simple answer is danger. It is unthinkable for lesbians and straight women alike because we are so accustomed to recognising […]

David Shapshak All I wanted to do was type up a few stories. With the dauntingly boring prospect of an 11 hour flight – leaving at 2pm, the best time of day to do some work – and not having finished the work before I left, it seemed like the perfect time to complete the […]

Links to Executive Outcomes may have made an Angolan mining company a target for attack, writes Chris Gordon DiamondWorks, whose Yetwene mine in north- eastern Angola was attacked last week, may have been a target because of the links of its parent company, British-based Branch Energy, to the South African mercenary company, Executive Outcomes. Branch […]

Spielberg has done it again. This time with an animated TV series that will keep young and old at home on Wednesday nights. Alex Dodd reports The Japanese might have been churning out magnificent manga for years, but – make no mistake – when Steven Spielberg puts his name behind an animated series for TV, […]

Justin Arenstein The African National Congress used taxpayers’ money to fund at least one of its provincial congresses in Mpumalanga in 1996. The party also appears to have actively courted the Mpumalanga Parks Board for cash donations totalling more than R105 000 and sponsorship of T-shirts, caps and satchels. The allegations, which are being probed […]

Douglas Rushkoff : Online `I’m getting a call, hold on,” my friend explained before clicking off our phone conversation to check on another incoming call. He was the one who had called me – just seconds earlier, in fact. After hearing his voice on the machine (which I use as a filtration device) I figured […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12.45pm. A SHOWDOWN between diversified African industrial group Lonrho Africa and its largest shareholder, emerging markets fund Blakeney Management, is looming as Blakeney is vying for control of the board after accusing it of giving a dismal performance. Lonrho annouced on Thursday it has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for […]