Best Fiction Film, Best Documentary — even Most Courageous Film … Prizes are up for grabs in this years Short Film Competition, writes Trevor Steele-Taylor THE annual Mail & Guardian/ Fawo Short Film Competition, which accompanies the Mail & Guardian Film Festival (now the South African International Film Festival), is entering its sixth, bumper year. […]

# A PERSPECTIVE THAT WORKS DAENS Directed by Stijn Coninx DAENS, set at the turn of the century in the small Belgian town of Aalst, is full of intrigue — not the melodramatic clash of ambitious egos as in your average soapie, but political manipulation in high places, with the Vatican and rich factory owners […]

Feathers may defy the laws of gravity but theyre good business if youre into extravagant head-gear. Sean Badal reports THERE are more feathers surrounding Andre Kemp and Nikki Swift than a pouting Prince in Paisley Park. But before you rush out and invest in Seventies retro gear and risk becoming a casualty of fashion, take […]

SOUTH AFRICA’S gold and foreign reserves rose 3,7 percent in August, according to the South African Reserve Bank. Total gold and foreign assets amounted to R7,850-billion on August 31 compared to R7,567-billion a month earlier. A decrease of R688,8-million in gold reserves detracted from a R971,9-increase in foreign assets, but the overall figure remained positive. […]

Edelweiss is a strange mixture of Alpine architecture, boere fare and first-rate cabaret entertainment. Guy Willoughby discovered it in that other country — Pretoria IF you come from somewhere else, our Executive Capital is an endless source of fascination: all that the locals take for granted has a curious air of mystery for the outsider. […]

Regional premiers have come to imagine they have powers the constitution never gave them, writes Mark Swilling PROVINCIAL governments are not what they think they are. Members of the executive councils (MECs) call themselves cabinet ministers with departments — but the constitution gives them different titles and powers. And it is this confusion that underlies […]

IF it is the job of a newspaper such as this to draw the attention of opinion-makers to warning signals flashing in one region of the country, then it is time to do so. It is Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezis modus operandi carefully to choose an apparently small issue and blow it up to the kind […]

Louise Flanagan THE Ministry of Defence has still not been briefed on the controversial Steyn report, deputy minister of defence Ronnie Kasrils admitted to parliament this week. I have been contextually briefed by General (Pierre) Steyn … I have, however, not been briefed on the contents of any report. This will be done shortly, Kasrils […]

Inkatha officials are refusing to co-operate with an official probe into alleged kwaZulu Police hit squads, report Chris Louw, Farouk Chothia and Ann Eveleth NATIONAL Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi faces a showdown with the Inkatha Freedom Party in his bid to root out suspected hit squad policemen from the kwaZulu Police (KZP) […]