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 […]

Gwen Ansell pays tribute to late great South African percussionist Makhaya Mahlangu MAKHAYA MAHLANGU is no more. The 42-year-old percussionist died in his sleep in the early hours of Monday morning. “Makhaya was a person who’d gone through many things in his life: poverty, oppression from the system. Yet he became one of the greats […]

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 […]

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 […]

Instead of depending on the government for a roof over their heads, a group of homeless women from Khayelitsha has started an innovative savings scheme. Justin Pearce reports FOR the women of the Victoria Mxenge Savings Scheme, development starts with coins in a jam jar under the bed. On Saturday, the group of 200 homeless […]

CRICKET: Paul Martin IT sure ain’t gonna be no easy ride in this sheriff’s posse. Big Bob Woolmer is known in the cricket world as something of a radical, an intellectual, a man of ideas, new ideas. For one thing, he will be requiring from the South African cricket team the same sort of dedication […]

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 […]

Wiseman Khuzwayo THE dissolution committee of the National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR) is pressing the attorney general to prosecute the eight people implicated in defrauding the organisation of possibly millions of rands. This follows the disclosure in the WM&G last week of a report by a two-member commission of inquiry into […]

CHILDREN’S THEATRE: Di Mannie ‘MOM, must we close our eyes?” asked a little boy in the audience as the show began and the theatre became a time machine with loud noises and flashing lights. When it was all over, it was the same voice that sighed: “Mom, that was so nice.” Director Jill Gerard believes […]

With a carload of prejudices Charles Leonard recently attended his first hotrod races at the Wembley International Raceway in Johannesburg MY first experience with hotrods not only taught me some of life’s valuable lessons, but it also gave me my first taste of class analysis. As a farmer’s son my father took me along to […]