As the Australian batting gets better in the run-up to the first Test, the need for more than one of South Africa’s specialist batsmen to make big scores increases CRICKET: Jon Swift THE Austalians will always be this country’s biggest rivals on the cricket field. There is, quite simply, no side the South Africans want […]

fences Caitlin Davies in Maun THE Botswana government looks set to introduce “wildlife-friendly fences” – that control the movement of one species while allowing others to roam free – in the Okavango Delta. Mary Kalikawe, a biologist for the Wildlife Training Institute based in Maun, produced a manual on such fences in 1995. She says […]

minutes Rehana Rossouw THE Free State African National Congress member who has launched a court challenge to the organisation’s decision to nominate Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri as premier for the province is still trying to unearth who made the original nomination. The ANC last year successfully challenged Edmund Qhali’s bid for urgent relief in the Free State […]

Allison Daniels in Hollywood ACCORDING to the credits, he edited the movie Fargo. His work was so impressive he has been nominated for an academy award. So who is this Hollywood hotshot Roderick Jaynes? Well, actually he does not exist. Roderick Jaynes, it has emerged, is a pseudonym for the film’s director and producer, Joel […]

Die Burger and Beeld appear to have shifted their support away from the NP, reflecting a wider rift in the Afrikaner community. Gustav Thiel and Jacquie Golding-Duffy report IT has long been a truism that no National Party leader has survived an attack by Die Burger. As the editorial onslaught against former president and NP […]

THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW YOU just cannot keep Peter Soller out of the headlines. The lawyer who made legal history when he successfully represented unmarried father Lawrie Fraser has been in the news again this week; this time facing criminal charges after Fraser’s child was kidnapped from his adoptive parents in Malawi. Some people in […]

SWAPNA PRABHAKARAN saw the Bolshoi Ballet in action, and was not overawed IT was only to be expected that the rich and famous would swoop down onto the Civic Theatre to attend the premiere of the Bolshoi Ballet. And they were there early, decked out in their finery and guzzling gin and tonics before the […]

Suzy Bell DURBAN’s Joseph Manana is one of the 33 KwaZulu-Natal artists invited to exhib it in Stuttgart this month. This is the first time the African Art Centre in G ermany has collected South African artworks and this cultural exchange project sees the introduction of talented local artists like Manana, William Zulu and Benjamin […]

Wherefore art thou, Leonardo? America has gone crazy for Romeo and Juliet, as interpreted by two hot young stars. HOWARD FEINSTEIN reports YOU can imagine how the media played it up: “Shakespeare’s Number One at Unite d States box office.” Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz (Strictly Ballroom) Lu hrmann, opened in the United States […]

Iden Wetherell ZIMBABWE’s human rights record has taken a hammering with a United States official report detailing violations ranging from police brutality to interference in the media. The US State Department’s 1996 Country Report on Zimbabwe criticises the Harare government for failing to pursue past allegations of torture and refusing to prosecute police and intelligence […]