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Most people who go on South African safari holidays hope to see Big Five game - lions, leopards, buffalos, rhinos and elephants - but what about the Small 110? That's how many South African frog species there are, and Amakhosi Lodge, a five-hour drive southeast of Johannesburg in the Kwazulu-Natal province's 10,000-hectare Amazulu Game Reserve, is offering frog-tracking safaris to find them (tel: [27-034] 414 1157; www.amakhosi.com). Frog watching can involve three-hour sessions of nocturnal wading; a headlamp leaves your hands free for holding a net and a guidebook. Expect...
...morals of God's timeless word. Each generation has lowered the bar a little further and been more lenient than the previous generation. It's time we raise our standards again. No one said it would be easy, but everything of value comes at a price. Daniel Lehmann Johannesburg...
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...correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After two black men were killed by police outside Cape Town, early police reports and accounts provided differing versions of how the incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent guidelines could create "a news vacuum in which rumors and distortions, from whatever quarter, will prevail...
...antiapartheid activists released last week found that the efforts to silence them did not end with detention. The group includes four whites and an Indian member of the executive board of the multiracial United Democratic Front. By the terms of their release, they have been effectively barred from leaving Johannesburg and from political activities. The Detainees' Parents Committee, which monitors detentions, denounced the curbs as "banning through the back door." Seven other former detainees appealed to the Supreme Court in Pretoria last week for an order that would prevent police brutality against prisoners held under emergency regulations in force since...