Author: Ewang Johnson
At this year’s Venice Film Festival, no film has been more talked about than this latest project from Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, which recounts the heart-shattering story of a six-year-old girl killed in Gaza, and received a record 23-minute standing ovation at the festival this week.It isn’t uncommon to hear cheers or boos at the end of a film festival screening, but when The Voice of Hind Rajab was shown to journalists and industry professionals at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, some far rarer sounds were heard. People were crying. Some of them were sobbing noisily, some were…
By Robert Erasmus, Managing Director at Sanitech South Africa’s water crisis is no longer looming. It is already here. Ageing infrastructure, rising pollution levels and increasing demand are converging to create a national emergency. Clean, safe water is critical not just for public health but for economic development and social stability. To move forward, water treatment must become part of a broader infrastructure renewal agenda. This includes decentralised solutions, private-sector innovation and long-term investment. The state of the system – infrastructure and quality in crisisMany South Africans still believe tap water is safe to drink. Yet according to the Department…
U.S. indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday with “Father Mother Sister Brother”, a three-part meditation on the uneasy ties between parents and their adult children. Story by Liza Kaminov. Source link
Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc and Josh O’Connor nearly steals the show in the “darkest” but also “most playful” instalment of the Knives Out franchise so far.Can anyone steal a Knives Out film from the great detective Benoit Blanc? As it turns out, yes, almost. The biggest revelation of Wake Up Dead Man, the third in Rian Johnson’s series of deliciously entertaining mysteries, is that Josh O’Connor, so great at drama, is also an excellent comic. He plays Father Jud Duplenticy, a former boxer turned priest, who as punishment for a violent outburst is sent from upstate New York…
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announces the appointment of Sandile Dhlomo as Head of Ericsson South Africa, as part of Ericsson West and Southern Africa, led by Majda Lahlou Kassi, effective 01 September 2025. He will also be a member of the Ericsson West and Southern Africa leadership team in Ericsson Europe, Middle East and Africa. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and digital industry and having held several senior roles in the African continent, Sandile has strategic leadership experience in Information and Communications Technology, network consulting, business development, and marketing across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Algeria, Nigeria, Kenya, and…
US indie director Jim Jarmusch won the Golden Lion award for the best film at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday with family saga “Father Mother Sister Brother”. Docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war, took the runner-up Silver Lion. Source link
Sydney Sweeney trained for months, muscled up, and put on 30lb (13.6kg) to play Christy Martin, a real-life champion boxer with a dramatic personal story. She wears a dark wig and brown contact lenses. And yet it is impossible to forget that she is Sydney Sweeney in the cliché-ridden biopic Christy, as our hyperawareness of her off-screen image distracts us from what’s going on in the film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week.A contradiction at the heart of Christy is that Sweeney is the main reason anyone is paying attention to the project, but her own…
Standard Bank, the biggest bank in Africa by assets, will host the fifth edition of its seminal Climate Summit. The Summit, which will be held in Johannesburg on 9 September, is one of the cornerstones of Standard Bank’s sustainability strategy. This year’s Summit will focus on climate adaptation and resilience under the theme of energy, infrastructure and resilience. “We have all observed energy challenges and extreme climate events in recent years. This year we are building on the energy transition conversation that we started with the Climate Summit four years ago by bringing in a focus on resilience – both…
Across Africa, leaders come and go. Elections bring new faces, fresh slogans, and promises of renewal. Yet beneath the campaigns and ceremonies lies the true measure of whether a nation rises or falters: the strength of its institutions. When institutions are weak, politics becomes personal. Power concentrates in individuals rather than systems. Courts bend under pressure. Parliaments become rubber stamps. Civil services run on patronage instead of principle. In such an environment, strongmen thrive. Not because they are visionary, but because the absence of guardrails leaves room for one person to dominate. We have seen this pattern repeat. Leaders who…
The Normandy beach town of Deauville is welcoming Hollywood heavyweights Kristen Stewart, Pamela Anderson and Kim Novak alongside indie talents at this year’s American Film Festival. FRANCE 24’s Genie Godula brings us the highlights of the opening weekend, as Michael Angelo Covino’s “Splitsville” kicks off proceedings, starring Dakota Johnson and Kyle Marvin. We also hear more about Kristen Stewart’s and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial débuts and the retrospectives providing insight into American film icons. Plus tributes pour in from the world of music, fashion and movies following the death of designer Giorgio Armani. Source link