Cry, the Beloved Country is South Africa’s first major post-election film project. William Pretorius spent a day on set THERE’S a lot riding on director Darrell Roodt’s film of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, produced by Anant Singh. It’s the first major post-election film production. A new beginning? Yes, thinks Roodt, when you can […]

The joy of winning: A victory at last is good, but the way it was achieved is better CRICKET: Jon Swift A SOLITARY win in a dozen one-day outings in a limited overs international that will be largely unremembered in three seasons’ time, is hardly cause for celebration. But the overall manner in which Hansie […]

Farouk Chothia THE ANC signalled its intention to prise support from the Inkatha Freedom Party in kwaZulu/Natal with the election last weekend of two traditional leaders to senior positions in the organisation’s new provincial executive committee (PEC). Chief Zibuse Mlaba was elected deputy chairman at a provincial conference last weekend, while Chief Elpheus Molefe was […]

Some R14,5-million of the kwaZulu/Natal budget for school library books is unaccounted for, reports Ann Eveleth AS much as R14,5-million earmarked for the purchase of school library books in kwaZulu/Natal is unaccounted for, prompting an official investigation by the provincial government. The Weekly Mail & Guardian has established that the province’s new library director, Sally […]

Tension between the ANC-in-government and the ANC-outside- government must be resolved at next weekend’s national conference, reports Gaye Davis REGIONAL congresses of the ANC have sent the movement’s leadership a strong signal in the run-up to its national conference this month: members elected to government should not be charged with running the organisation. Few ANC […]

The relaunch of the Afrikaner Volksfront appears to be little more than a damp squib, reports Jan Taljaard THE once-influential Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF) — relaunched last weekend after its demise in the wake of the April election — has been dismissed as “the Conservative Party in disguise”. At a press conference held to launch the […]

A video shows another side of this week’s eviction of illegal squatters in central Johannesburg, reports Mduduzi ka Harvey A VIDEO cassette in the possession of the Weekly Mail & Guardian strongly supports claims by squatters forcefully evicted from Claridge Court in central Johannesburg this week that police played a part in the trashing of […]

Skhumbuzo Miya THE Inkatha Freedom Party recently celebrated its kwaZulu/Natal election victory at Mphusheni on the South Coast by feasting on stolen ANC cattle. IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi was the keynote speaker at the rally, local residents said. They said several ANC-supporting families from nearby Adam’s Mission had had their cattle stolen before the celebration […]

Shadley Nash: Port Elizabeth THE Cradock community, still reeling from shock at recent revelations that three Port Elizabeth civic leaders were brutally murdered by the security forces, believe the bodies may be buried at the site of their torture and murder. A privately-owned holiday farm now stands where the Pebco Three were allegedly tortured and […]

GOLF: Jon Swift WATCHING Nick Faldo smile is both a precious and rare occasion. So inwardly focussed is the man, so high the standards he sets himself, that this normal and outward sign of humanity has, like so many of the inconsistencies of his game, been ruled out of his professional persona. Faldo is a […]