Philippa Garson EVERY day, thousands of children rise before daybreak to begin an=20 arduous working day. Whether it is on farms, in coalyards, on streets=20 selling newspapers, hawking vegetables or prostituting, children are=20 labouring all over the country. The occasional case of abuse of working children may reach the media, but= for the most, the […]

CINEMA: Justin Pearce THERE=D5S something strangely fortuitous about the South African release=20 of Before the Rain coinciding with Nato=D5s long-awaited decision to slap= Serbia on its blood-spattered wrists. The film is, after all, an examinatio= n of=20 the relationship =D1 or, rather, the lack of relationship =D1 between Weste= Europe and the Balkans at a […]

Brigadier Roland de Vries and Colonel Solly Mollo in The Mark Gevisser=20 Colonel Rocky Williams, an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) commander now=20 at the defence secretariat, remembers how officers from MK and the South=20 African Defence Force bonded, courtesy of Charles Glass, round the=20 braaivleis fire. An MK guy would look at his watch and […]

SOCCER: Lungile Madywabe THE South African team, which assembles on Monday in preparation for=20 the Africa Nations Cup finals which take place in South Africa from=20 January 13 to February 3 next year, know that they have a momentous task=20 ahead of them. This week they were drawn in a group with Cameroon, Egypt and […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Priest, director Antonia Bird clearly believes that two of the feathered= species in the hand are better than one in the bush. This is to say that Pr= is not the most subtle film. In complicity with Jimmy McGovern=D5s blunt=20 screenplay, Bird directs with a brashness that is sometimes overwrought.=20 Nevertheless, […]

A former national serviceman has claimed that SADF involvement in illicit= ivory smuggling continued well into the 1980s, writes Ann Eveleth A JUDICIAL commission of inquiry heard claims this week that the old=20 South African Defence Force (SADF) was involved in ivory smuggling on=20 behalf of Angola=D5s Unita rebels until at least 1987. Testimony by […]

Neil Bierbaum=20 Residents and owners of flats and townhouses could face difficulties if the= opt for satellite television. Most municipal by-laws only allow for one aerial stack or satellite dish.= However, existing units do not have the correct wiring to carry the high=20 frequency (IF) signal from a satellite dish to the Integrated Receiver=20 Decoder […]

THEATRE: David Le Page KARNAVAL, at the Johannesburg Civic, is a reminder that one of South=20 Africa=D5s great dramatic talents is hiding inside Evita Bezuidenhout. Twen= years old, it remains poignant and very funny. Though it was undoubtedly=20 more outrageous in its language, and politically provocative, in the=20 Seventies, the loss of those resonances serves […]

Part museum, part holiday resort, Lesedi Cultural Village offers a =D4Real= African Experience=D5. JUSTIN PEARCE asks: What=D5s wrong with=20 THE American tourists are in traditional dress: golf shirts and polyester= slacks. Looking quietly excited and a touch apprehensive, they meet Xolani= Dludla, their guide, at the reception area of Lesedi Cultural Village and= follow him […]

Rehana Rossouw CAPE TOWN either has an Olympic bid which benefits the poor, or the=20 Games will not take place in the city in 2004, a coalition of organisations= has warned. Slamming the initiative as a =D2big business bid=D3, the Coalition for=20 Sustainable Cities (CSC), representing 35 trade union, political,=20 environmental and development organisations, this […]