SADC ‘disowns’ Zim pageant
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has refuted information published in the African News Dimension about SADC authorising Taletell Entertainment in Zimbabwe to host Miss SADC beauty pageant. “The information contained in the article of January 19 does not hold a true reflection of the agreement between the two parties Mpho Kgosidintsi of the SADC Corperate Communications Unit stated.

Does the night ever end in Hiroshima?
“Hiroshima, Mon Amour” (1959) is being shown on January 24, only at 7 pm at the Maru a Pula School, A/V Centre (Gaborone Film Society). “Hiroshima, My Love” is rated one of the 100 best films of the last century. It is director Alan Resnais’ first feature film. In the 1950s, he had made a number of significant documentaries. He had a life long fascination with the links between time and memory, atrocities and their representation in art. His early films include: “Statues also Die”; “All the Memories of the World” on the National Library in Paris; “Night and Fog” on concentration camps and “Guernica” on Picasso’s famous painting on the Civil War in Spain and the bombing of the city by the Fascists.