THEATRE: David Le Page KARNAVAL, at the Johannesburg Civic, is a reminder that one of South=20 Africa=D5s great dramatic talents is hiding inside Evita Bezuidenhout. Twen= years old, it remains poignant and very funny. Though it was undoubtedly=20 more outrageous in its language, and politically provocative, in the=20 Seventies, the loss of those resonances serves […]

KwaZulu-Natal=D5s embattled attorney general has agreed to reconsider a hit= squad prosecution to avoid a major confrontation, reports Ann Eveleth EMBATTLED KwaZulu-Natal Attorney General Tim McNally ths week=20 stepped back from the brink of a major confrontation with the Investigation= Task Unit (ITU) probing hit squads in the province. In a remarkable volte-face on Wednesday, […]

Swiss director Daniel Schmid grew up in the family hotel =D1 now a=20 recurrent image in his films, writes TREVOR STEELE-TAYLOR =D4I WAS The American Friend,=D3 Swiss film director Daniel Schmid told us= over lunch in Johannesburg. =D2It was me that Bruno Ganz killed in the=20 subway.=D3 The film he referred to is Wim Wenders=D5 […]

If enough money can be raised, Kruger Park elephants will be relocated=20 instead of culled next year, writes Eddie Koch THE controversial elephant cull in the Kruger Park will stop next year if= the National Parks Board succeeds with an ambitious plan to raise funds=20 from international animal rights organisations to expand South Africa=D5s= game […]

CINEMA: Stanley Peskin IN Priest, director Antonia Bird clearly believes that two of the feathered= species in the hand are better than one in the bush. This is to say that Pr= is not the most subtle film. In complicity with Jimmy McGovern=D5s blunt=20 screenplay, Bird directs with a brashness that is sometimes overwrought.=20 Nevertheless, […]

Philippa Garson WHILE supporting the provisions in the Draft Child Care Amendment Bill=20 on child labour, the National Children=D5s Rights Committee (NCRC)=20 describes the bill as a =D2band-aid=D3 for glaring problems and calls for t= drafting of an entirely new Act. The Bill uses a =D2pathology-centred model of dealing with children in need= of care […]

A former national serviceman has claimed that SADF involvement in illicit= ivory smuggling continued well into the 1980s, writes Ann Eveleth A JUDICIAL commission of inquiry heard claims this week that the old=20 South African Defence Force (SADF) was involved in ivory smuggling on=20 behalf of Angola=D5s Unita rebels until at least 1987. Testimony by […]

Simmering tensions over land rights have boiled over after a dispute about= the burial of a teenager, reports Eddie Koch There is a war of the graves taking place in the Badplaas district that=20 shows, in a strange way, how the everyday lives of farmers and their labour= tenants are being shaped by a silent […]

Karen Harverson speaks to Transport Minister Mac Maharaj on the links to=20 sub-Saharan continent=20 The South African government has proposed to the Southern African=20 Development Community (SADC) that the trunk roads leading into other=20 sub-Saharan countries be upgraded. =D2It would be financed by the imposition of a cross-border tariff which=20 would be used to rehabilitate […]

The Azanian Students=D5 Movement is misusing Steve Biko=D5s name for its= own sectarian interests, argues Mamphela Ramphele THE tensions around the Azanian Students Movement=D5s (Azasm)=20 campaign to have white teachers in schools previously set aside for black= people replaced by unemployed black teachers, in the name of black=20 solidarity, is a chilling reminder of the […]