Staff Reporter
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/ 30 June 1995

Exit the Dark Knight

Cinema: Justin Pearce Batman Forever — the third film in the sequence that began with Tim Burton’s Batman — is a comic book of a movie. This fact would not need pointing out, but for the fact that the first two in the sequence weren’t comic book movies. They were graphic novel movies. When Burton, […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Tne bard of township culture

Author Modikwe Dikobe, in The Mark Gevisser Profile There was something both surreal and appropriate about=20 the fact that octogenarian author Modikwe Dikobe was to=20 give a walking tour of his old Doornfontein haunts on=20 the morning of the Rugby World Cup final. He had been=20 brought down from his home in the Northern Transvaal=20 […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Africa’s last colony

A little-known struggle for independence continues in=20 West Africa — and South Africa has strange links to=20 it. Ann Eveleth reports the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela on May=20 10 last year was heralded as the end of colonialism for=20 a beleaguered continent, but nobody seemed to notice=20 that one distinguished guest was celebrating a […]

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/ 30 June 1995

De Klerk denies it all

Stefaans BrUmmer DEPUTY President FW de Klerk this week distanced=20 himself from post-1990 security force “dirty tricks”=20 operations, while the ANC parliamentary study group on=20 safety and security said denials were to be expected. The tete-a-tete followed revelations in last week’s=20 Mail & Guardian by former police operative Paul Erasmus=20 of his involvement in the […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Religious groups hit out at draft Education Bill

The right of a child to refuse religious instruction=20 enshrined in the new Gauteng Education Bill has=20 caused an outcry, reports Gavin du Venage The Gauteng Education Bill has come under attack from=20 Jewish, Muslim and Christian schools who fear it will=20 outlaw their right to provide religious teaching. Muslim schools have also objected to […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Well known businessman gets court to gag the media

Pat Sidley A RAND Supreme Court judge has issued an extraordinary=20 gagging order aimed at silencing speculation about a=20 controversial businessman’s private life and its=20 confusion with his business tasks. The businessman, Bart Dorrestein is the deputy=20 executive chairman of the large property development=20 company Stocks and Stocks listed on the Johannesburg=20 Stock Exchange. His […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Dame Kiri triumphs at Superbowl

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Coenraad Visser AS if to compensate for the All Blacks’ defeat on the rugby field, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa conquered all with an .astounding performance at the Sun City Superbowl. Even with paltry support from the National Symphony Orchestra (in this repertoire, why use a poor radio orchestra while an excellent opera orchestra […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Mood swing

Has-beens tbey may be, but FRED DE VRIES found it hard to remain cynical talking to John Lodge of The Moody WAY back in 1967, a five-piece band from Birmingham recorded that song, the song which would, in time, become as famous, as loved and as loathed as Stairway to Heaven or Hey Jude. Just […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Nocturnal paint bombs gun toting neighbours

Paul Erasmus describes his initiation into ‘dirty=20 tricks’ against the left. This is the first of a=20 series of extracts from his manuscript Not long after I joined the security police (in January=20 1977), I was told by my colleagues and superiors,=20 including section head Major JHL Jordaan and=20 lieutenants At Kellerman (who later became […]

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/ 30 June 1995

Have faith bet on The Pope

After a long period of monastic silence, the lure of the July was too tempting for Thomas Equinus and he is back in the saddle predicting a 16-1 winner BETTING on the Rothmans July will be even more hazardous this year. The race is run in KwaZulu/Natal, a highly inflammable civil war zone. By the […]