The defence ministry is investigating Armscor’s mysterious shipment of AK47s to Yemen — which may originally have been intended for Unita. By Eddie Koch, Paul Stober and Stefaans Brummer A CLANDESTINE consignment of AK47 assault rifles sent to Yemen by Armscor officials has opened new tensions between Defence Minister Joe Modise and conservative elements in […]

Elana Meyer has just completed the most successful four weeks of her career ATHLETICS: Julian Drew ELANA MEYER, South Africa’s most successful athlete, finally struck gold last weekend to put the cherry on the top of a highly rewarding season. Her victory in Oslo in the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) world half-marathon championships provided […]

The reconstruction and development programme White Paper may have doused some hopes. By Reg Rumney ‘NO cornucopia of new money for social upliftment programmes” is the hidden message of the White Paper on the reconstruction and development programme, the ANC’s grand plan to put right the economic wrongs created by apartheid, released last week. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

New South African coach Bob Woolmer is faced with a bowling problem CRICKET: Jon Swift IT IS of more than passing interest that Bob Woolmer, our new national coach, sees his first priority as working on the confidence of the players who make up the South African side. “I think one of the problems is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]