Ruaridh Nicoll in Luanda=20 AT dawn, in a hangar at Luanda’s airport,=20 blue-beret troops of the largest United=20 Nations peacekeeping mission in the world=20 stand in the rising heat. Each of them knows that the UN’s mission in=20 Angola officially finishes at the end of=20 February, but they do not expect to go=20 home. Instead […]

Colin Bundy A LION AMONGST THE CATTLE: RECONSTRUCTION=20 AND RESISTANCE IN THE NORTHERN TRANSVAAL by=20 Peter Delius (Ravan, R89,95) AT the heart of this book (writes Peter=20 Delius) “is an account of two rebellions=20 less than 30 years apart”. Twice in three=20 decades, the Pedi “reserve” in the Northern=20 Transvaal was convulsed by protests against=20 […]

Iden Wetherell reports on the political=20 crisis facing Zimbabwe’s tourism industry ZIMBABWE’S National Parks Department, due=20 to host a summit of the Convention on=20 International Trade in Endangered Species=20 (Cites) in Harare in June, is facing a=20 leadership crisis which has badly dented=20 its reputation as one of Africa’s most=20 effective wildlife managers. The department […]

Chris McGreal in Kigali ZAIRE’S ragged army has claimed the first=20 victory of its long-awaited counter- offensive against Rwandan-backed rebels,=20 saying it has taken a town it has never=20 admitted to losing in the first place. Within a few days of launching its “total=20 and devastating” attack last week against=20 the guerrilla Alliance of Democratic […]

Jacquie Golding-Duffy SABC board member Allister Sparks is seeking business from the corporation for his Johannesburg-based Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ). Sparks this week confirmed that he has submitted a proposal to the SABC offering to train radio and television journalists at the IAJ’s plush Parktown offices. Sparks says there is no conflict […]

Chris McGreal reports from Kibungo prison=20 on the desperate hopes of Hutus facing the=20 firing squad for their part in the genocide=20 IF anything shakes Deogratias Bizimana’s=20 misplaced belief that he will live to see=20 his 39th birthday, it is the business with=20 his wife. Leaning against the wall of Kibungo=20 prison’s condemned cell, the […]

JEAN MICHEL FRODON speaks to Woody Allen=20 about his new film Mighty Aphrodite When you begin a new script, do you know in=20 advance how the narrative is going to work=20 out? “Yes, always. If you just have a good idea=20 but don’t develop it, you end up with a 20- page script, and you’re […]

Glynis O’Hara A RECORD number of entries – over 600 – has=20 been received for the third annual FNB=20 South African Music Awards, an increase of=20 about 40% over last year. That’s because there’s been much more=20 recording activity this year, says Penny=20 Stein, PR for the awards. “It’s also=20 because there are two new […]

The Black Editors Forum is adamant Sanef will not undermine its black interests. Jacquie Golding-Duffy reports EFFORTS by the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) to unite editors, irrespective of colour, are being overwhelmed by the increasingly high profile and growing influence of the Black Editors Forum (BEF). Sanef, founded in October last year, aims […]

THE ANGELLA JOHNSON INTERVIEW PAM WHYTE has the mind of an exuberant=20 five-month-old Dobermann pinscher. Well,=20 that’s what she says. “I try to think like=20 the animal I’m helping,” explains the 55- year-old dog psychologist. “Actually, I=20 prefer the term dog communication=20 specialist,” she corrects briskly, giving=20 me a blast of the no-nonsense tone used […]