SOUTH AFRICAN voters remain highly intolerant of their political opponents, according to the latest Markinor/Idasa Opinion ’99 survey. The survey found one in four voters openly admits being ready to take action against political opponents including being prepared to block speeches, rallies and other normal political activity. Up to half of African National Congress supporters […]
EGYPTIAN actress Yusra has been acquitted of outraging public morals over a risque photograph published on the cover of a cinema magazine four years ago, court officials said on Friday.Yusra was convicted after two Islamist lawyers complained that she appeared “nearly nude” in the November 1995 cover photograph of Al-Cinema wal-Nass.Defence lawyers argued that the […]
Question: What do you do with a large brown tube-like object placed between your index finger and thumb? Answer: Don’t deny the experience ever took place – as United States President Bill Clinton did after he gave Monica Lweinsky a cigar to titillate herself with while he watched. That’s the official line from the 70-odd […]
The introduction of six bull elephants seems to have sorted out the `aberrant behaviour’ of the young males in Pilanesberg, writes Barbara Ludman It was the sort of scene certain to delight visitors lucky enough to come upon it: a young bull elephant and two much younger males browsing peacefully together in the sparse bushveld, […]
Howard Barrell The African National Congress is pulling out all the stops to seize control of the government of the Western Cape from the New National Party in the election on June 2 – and it believes it has a good chance of succeeding. The ANC’s strategy depends on persuading upwards of six leading coloured […]
Charlene Smith King Carl Gustaf of Sweden this week knighted long-time anti-apartheid activist Horst Kleinschmidt with the Order of the Polar Star, Sweden’s highest award for foreigners. Sweden became the first government to acknowledge the incredible work over five decades of the organisation International Defence and Aid Fund (Idaf), which Kleinschmidt headed from 1979 until […]
aRonald Bergen on the life and films of Stanley Kubrick, the enigmatic and reclusive director who died recently aged 70 Over his 40-year career, the director Stanley Kubrick made only 13 feature films, yet the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his extremely slow method of working, the years of planning, the secrecy, […]
Anthony Egan AFRICA: THE TIME HAS COME by Thabo Mbeki (Tafelberg/Mafube) HOPE AND FEAR: REFLECTIONS OF A DEMOCRAT by Tony Leon (Jonathan Ball) It is election year, so anything published by a prominent politician gets special treatment, whether they deserve it or not. These two books -by the president-in-waiting and one whom many hope will […]
Chris McGreal in Lagos Of all the mysteries surrounding the capture of the Lagos “man-eater”, the fate of the missing heads is the most disturbing. Clifford Orji was caught frying up human feet and ribs for breakfast under a city flyover. Severed hands lay about the place. There was even a policeman’s helmet resting on […]
One of South Africa’s most under-resourced hospitals has been named as the research base of a new Aids drug. David Shapshak, Evidence wa ka Ngobeni and Aaron Nicodemus report Ga-Rankuwa is an unlikely place for an Aids breakthrough. The dusty, dishevelled hospital outside Pretoria has been almost abandoned by the health system, leaving it critically […]