Shaun De Waal

Shaun de Waal has worked at the Mail & Guardian since 1989. He was literary editor from 1991 to 2006 and chief film critic for 15 years. He is now editor-at-large. Recent publications include Exposure: Queer Fiction, 25 Years of the Mail & Guardian and Not the Movie of the Week.

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/ 20 July 2007

SABC’s bid to stop Mbeki doccie screening fails

It was a bit like the old days of the Weekly Mail Film Festival – a movie under threat of banning, an audience eager to see it, a contentious panel willing to discuss it and all the issues in detail. But there were no protesters outside, and the attempts to halt the screening came not from state censors but the SABC, which had originally commissioned the film.