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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/ 25 June 2006

‘Young boys are dying like flies’

Five boys have died in the Eastern Cape since last week, the start of the circumcision period in that province, the provincial health department said on Saturday. The fifth body was picked up by the police at an initiation school late on Saturday, said Sizwe Kupelo, departmental spokesperson.

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/ 22 June 2006

A tiny collateral damage

The location of Alyn Hospital on the outskirts of Jerusalem is so idyllic it could be out of the famous tale, Heidi. Nestled on a hilltop enclosed in pine-groves and wild daffodils, the sound of birdsong and children’s giggles allow one momentarily to forget the reality inside the hospital’s walls — the damaged and deformed children who are its patients.

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/ 1 June 2006

Pop go the weasels

<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> From the director of <i>American Pie</i>, <i>American Dreamz</i> has enough intelligence embedded in its concept and script to lift it above the level of mere gross-out, writes Shaun de Waal.

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/ 19 May 2006

A change of season

MOVIE OF THE WEEK: South Korean Kim Ki-Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring certainly has a meditative tone, though there are eruptions — and a certain dark humour, too, writes
Shaun de Waal.