Yearly Archives: 1994

An Angolan intelligence chief alleges South Africans are still involved in covert support of rebel movement Unita. By Stefaans Brummer South African companies continue to supply Angolan rebel movement Unita with military equipment in contravention of a United Nations ban and South African government policy, claims the Angolan intelligence service. Angolan government armed forces intelligence […]

Guy Willoughby LAST week saw the official launch at the Civic Theatre of the Theatre Managements of South Africa (TMSA), set up after intensive negotiations to represent the interests of theatre management nationwide. The body’s executive includes industry movers and shakers, and a management council brings in public- sector and independent producers, as well as […]

Big business parastatal, the Industrial Development Corporation, is up for restructuring, says the government. The IDC thinks otherwise. Reg Rumney reports DESPITE providing almost R400-million to support black economic empowerment, the parastatal Industrial Development Corporation is still up for restructuring. The recently released White Paper on the reconstruction and development programme reiterates an earlier promise […]

Will their children should get an equal start in life? Four parents express their views. Pat Sidley reports THE routine business of choosing a school for a six- year-old has become a taxing dilemma for South African parents. Between the expectation of “a better life for all” and the terror of “falling standards”, sending a […]

Paul Stober A FORMER Vanderbijlpark district surgeon is appearing before a South African Medical and Dental Council disciplinary committee for allegedly helping cover up police torture. Albert Niemann has been accused of sending a false medical certificate to a magistrate’s court, declaring an awaiting-trial prisoner with signs of physical abuse “completely normal”. The prisoner, Michael […]

ON the eve of the launch of Weekly Mail & Guardian’s new supplement on nature tourism, environmental editor Eddie Koch has won a special merit award for his coverage. Koch won the award at this week’s SAB Environmental Journalists of the Year Award for his “consistently high standard and commitment to stimulating public interest and […]

Lesley Cowling THE state is obliged to pay a substantial portion of the costs of General Lothar Neethling’s litigation against the Weekly Mail and Vrye Weekblad as a result of this week’s Appeal Court judgment. Neethling sued the newspapers for defamation in 1989, lost the case in the supreme court and won on appeal in […]

THE National Intelligence Service is so keen to show that it is part of the new South Africa that it is gathering information on the implementation of the reconstruction and development programme and identifying impediments to the implementation of this government policy. The NIS is out of bounds. It is the role of the national […]

Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Pulp Fiction, opened the South African International Film Festival this week. The controversial director spoke to Andrew Pulver in London WHEN Quentin Tarantino strolled up the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to take possession of the Palme d’Or for his second feature, Pulp Fiction, it wasn’t […]

Dogtroep kick off their performances at Arts Alive tomorrow night. Neil Wallace gives an idea of what to expect HOLLAND’S Dogtroep, a group of performers, musicians, sculptors and technicians specialising in bizarre performance events, work both indoors and out. The snow spectacle commissioned for the 1992 Winter Olympics confirmed them as one of Europe’s most […]