HEALTH MINISTER TO BAN ALCOHOL ADVERTISING

Alcohol advertising may soon follow the way of cigarette advertising by falling into the throes of history and theses studies. That’s if Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has his way. Motsoaledi told delegates at COSATU’s conference that alcohol was one of society’s ills that has to be gotten rid of. And one of the ways proposed is to ban advertisements promoting alcohol and its use.

DVD REVIEW: FROZEN

DIRECTOR: Adam Green

CAST: Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, Kevin Zegers

Three teenagers are on snow-shelled mountain side on a snowboarding trip. Unfortunately they don’t seem to have enough money to buy tickets for the cable car that takes people up the slopes, who thereafter snowboard down on their own. 

OBE CHAMP KADER ASMAL HAS PASSED AWAY

ANC stalwart and former Minister in the Education as well as the Water Affairs Departments, Professor Kader Asmal has passed away. He was 76. Asmal died of a heart attack just two weeks after the passing away of another ANC icon Albertina Sisulu.

LUVO NTEZO APPOINTED ONE&ONLY HEAD SOMMELIER

FOR Luvo Ntezo, there’s always room to grow and his recent appointment as head sommelier at One&Only Cape Town has come at just the right time for this likeable wine aficionado.

Despite the slew of awards that have come his way over the past few years, Luvo Ntezo is a humble man, clearly excited by the scope of the wine world that he so comfortably inhabits.