Angella Johnson SEVENTY-year-old Hendrik Anderson and his rifle are inseparable. That’s been so ever since, that is, the first attempted robbery at his farm in Mpumalanga six years ago. There have been three attacks since then, the latest on Monday after he left his weapon by the farmhouse door. Anderson was shot, beaten to the […]

Janet Suzman is in Johannesburg to audition local actors for two proposed international theatre tours. She spoke to CHARL BLIGNAUT JANET SUZMAN may have taken a dip at the standard of local theatre management during her recent spell at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, but when it comes to local acting talent she’s positively brimming […]

Investigations into struggle ‘crimes’ may affect Pretoria bomb suspect Helene Passtoors and others, reports Stefaans Brmmer TRANSVAAL Attorney General Jan D’Oliveira’s investigation of ”crimes” committed in the course of the struggle against apartheid may catch up with high-profile foreigners who fought with South Africa’s liberation armies – notably former husband-and-wife team Helene Passtoors and Klaas […]

Stuart Hess SOUTH AFRICA’S first census since the establishment of a fully democratic government looks like it will be a success, say census organisers. An undercount of only 2% is foreseen. With the counting of the nation nearing completion, the preliminary results are expected late in January. The census has not, however, always gone smoothly […]

Andrew Worsdale NODI MURPHY, the ebullient co-director of the Out-In-Africa Bell’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, acknowledges that this year’s selection is more mainstream than before. “We’ve learnt our lesson,” she says, downing a robust English breakfast including whisky and espresso at three in the afternoon, “and scaled down the operation. Last year there was […]

Angella Johnson DURING winter months the joints in Percy Stellenberg’s jaw become stiff and sore as if in need of oiling. Come summer time the right side of his face is distorted by massive swelling, and pain continues to be a feature of his daily life. In any season his sense of smell is confused […]

Black empowerment suffered a body blow when Transnet high-flyer Sipho Nyawo was fired for abusing his company credit card. Andy Duffy reports MISMANAGEMENT and racism turned what could have been a quiet, early censure into a spectacular, politically embarrassing downfall, say former colleagues of sacked Transnet executive Sipho Nyawo. Little else, they claim, can explain […]

Applause for Chief Justice Michael Corbett may be uneven, but he put in place a progessive approach to public employees’ rights NOW that the tenure of Chief Justice Michael Corbett is drawing to a close, the retrospectives and potted reviews of his incumbency will doubtless come thick and fast in the press. Of course, it […]

Nat Zeno `IT’S a buyers market” is the more frequent reply to any question regarding the First Annual Southern African International Film and Television Market, but are there going to be any buyers present? By the time you read this all these and more questions will have been answered. >From November 13 to 17 Longkloof […]

THIRTY five elephant in the Kruger Park have been darted from the air with sedatives, checked with an ultra-sound machine to ensure they are not pregnant, and given a hefty dose of the pachyderm pill in a novel experiment designed to test whether animal contraception can minimise the need for culling the Kruger National Park’s […]