Fiona Macleod A ranger shooting a rhinoceros in the world-renowned Kruger National Park goes against everything national wildlife reserves represent. Hunting and poaching are forbidden in these reserves, and one of the rangers’ jobs is to protect endangered wild animals like rhinos from people who want to shoot them. But what about a ranger who […]

Dignitaries were impressed, but ordinary people were puzzled or unaffected by the monarch’s visit last week. Katy Bauer went to gawk at the queen To live, not as a human being, but as a symbol, is the terrible fate of the British monarch. Fortunately for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, this state of affairs seems […]

That engaging soul, Denis Beckett, is back in our living rooms. A new and very welcome season of Beckett’s Trek (SABC3, 21:30) began last week Thursday, its first programme having Denis traipsing around Tanzania in a somewhat disheartening bid to make sense of a country still crushed under the late Julius Nyerere’s socialist dreamplan. After […]

Mail & Guardian reporter The Council on Higher Education is a powerful and broadly based body advising the minister on every facet of the sector. The council was established under the provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1997, and the first council was appointed in June 1998 with Professor Wiseman Nkhulu as chair. It […]

CABINET on Wednesday approved the licensing of two additional national mobile cellular telecommunication networks, details of which will be announced by Telecoms Minister Jay Naidoo on Thursday. The licensing of two new networks was recommended by the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra) two months ago, despite the opposition of the two existing networks, Vodacom […]

John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF South Africa, the new kid on the African block, scored heavily at the Sanga Festival of African and Indian Ocean Choreography, held in Antanarivo, the capital of Madagascar, last week. Ntikelelo Boyzie Cekwana’s Floating Outfit Project walked away with first prize in a field of 10 strong contenders for […]

Gavin Evans Boxing Now that he holds the long-overdue honour of being undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Lennox Claudius Lewis will be the man to beat in the premier division. The 34-year-old Jamaican-Canadian- Englishman has opted to spend the next two years cashing in on his titles and status. Of course he will have […]

A new photo exhibition takes the mask as its inspiration. Wayne Robbins investigates It’s a late Saturday afternoon in 1996. Corner of Rissik and Wolmarans streets, Johannesburg. A boy finds a paper mask in a bin, puts it on. African kid in a discarded European mask. Graeme Williams takes a picture. For Williams, photography is […]

Not quite movie of the week It’s that old adultery theme again. It has become as much of a clich and a formula as most of the rest of Hollywood’s stock-in- trade, predictably playing out the conflict between the demands of family and the lure of freedom (or just excitement). And, as if influenced by […]

Wally Mbhele and Paul Kirk A senior National Intelligence Agency (NIA) official was arrested on Monday in Durban for the alleged rape of a Department of Foreign Affairs official. Both were assigned duties at the high-powered Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). The matter was kept under wraps as government officials believed it would “embarrass” […]