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/ 21 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 21 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
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 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
“Speak not ill of the dead” is a maxim which has long been honoured more in the breach. Those who would attribute lack of respect for the dead to modern fashion — the cowardice of the tabloids (the threat of libel action having been consigned to the worms), or the trend towards “obitchery” — might […]
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/ 14 February 1997
bashing Mail & Guardian Reporter GAY-BASHING has spread to Namibia with Swapo and President Sam Nujoma saying homosexuals are white and perverts. Two years ago human rights organisations were horrified when Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said homosexuals were worse than pigs and dogs. Now Nujoma has slammed gays and the ruling party Swapo has come […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Vicious cycle: A 2 000-strong vigilante=20 group takes on crime in Northern Province.=20 Tangeni Amupadhi reports A GROUP of more than 2 000 vigilantes is=20 dispensing its own brand of street justice=20 in Northern Province, prompting authorities=20 to call in the army to shore up official=20 crime-fighting forces. The group, called Mapogo a Mathamaga – […]
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/ 14 February 1997
Stellenbosch University `top-bestuur’ faces revolt over secret pay-outs and management style. Marion Edmunds reports THE administration at Stellenbosch University, bastion of Afrikaner education, is facing a rebellion from its academics and students over its management style and secret pay-outs to five senior staff. It also emerged this week that the university has been fined R90 […]
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/ 14 February 1997
The bizarre life of the man who bombed ANC headquarters in London, and who was crushed to death last week, is recounted by Phillip van Niekerk WHEN a spy dies, one is left guessing what knowledge he has taken to the grave with him. Peter Casselton, London spymaster of the apartheid government, resident of Vlakplaas, […]