Peter Mullan, winner of the best actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has a tale to tell those who wonder if it all might go to his head. It stems from his experience working on Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winner about the exploits of William Wallace. Mullan remembers watching the director of the second […]
The male-to-male escort industry is booming, servicing clients who are typically middle- aged, affluent, white – and most often married. Charl Blignaut spends time at a whorehouse In the quiet street of a leafy suburb in the east of Johannesburg not even the next-door neighbours know that the house next door is a brothel. Why […]
Chris Gordon Luanda’s frantic daytime commercial activity belies tension in the peace process, but at night the city falls quiet, reflecting the fears that the low-level war will increase when the United Nations completes its pull- out at the end of June. The new impasse comes as Unita refused to hand over their political and […]
Tangeni Amupadhi The official police watchdog, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), has embarked on a wide- ranging investigation into allegations that the jailed People’s Poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli, was framed for robberies. This follows a plea by Jessie Duarte, former Gauteng MEC for safety and security, for the watchdog to examine the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding […]
negotiations Thembela Kepe, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Ben Cousins Despite the depth of the problems faced by the Wild Coast spatial development initiative (SDI), it has a great deal of positive potential – and it is not too late to correct the mistakes. However, the defensive response to our article (”Tempers flare on Wild Coast”, May […]
Lizeka Mda: CITY LIMITS It’s Saturday and the Avalon cemetery in Soweto is full of life. As usual, more than 100 funerals are going to take place before the afternoon is over. Dozens more will take place at Dobsonville and Roodepoort cemeteries. Saturday belongs to the dead in Soweto. The hearses – flamboyant stretch limousines, […]
Andy Duffy Special state investigations swallowed more than R40-million of taxpayers’ money in just 12 months, the government’s finance watchdog has found. The figures, buried in the report the auditor general released to Parliament earlier this week, point to a sudden acceleration, in the 12 months to March 1997, in the government’s drive to call […]
Dale T McKinley: CROSSFIRE What hole did Kuseni Dlamini (Crossfire, May 22 to 28) just climb out of to proclaim the death of the left? I’ll take a wild guess that it was the one he dug for himself in the depths of the corporate bowels of De Beers where, I have no doubt, the […]
Chris Roper On show in Cape Town In the catalogue for his exhibition, Stuart Barnes states that ”in a university, library books on the subject of ambiguous sex have suffered a history of violence: they have been mutilated. Pages have been torn and images of intersex genitalia excised from them. As a preventative measure they […]
WEDNESDAY, 6.30PM: A 33-YEAR OLD man was wounded in a shooting incident between members of the “Yakkie” gang and taxi drivers in Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain on Tuesday. Police said the bystander was taken to hospital after being shot and was later discharged. Taxis blocked the road outside Mitchell’s Plain police station earlier on Tuesday demanding […]