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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

An explosion of shanty towns in the Vaal may force the PWV government to rethink its rejection of site and service schemes. Drew Forrest looks at the growing blight along the Golden Highway DRIVING south, it starts with Freedom Park and St Martin’s Trust, rambling down a hillside opposite Eldorado. Across the toll road lies […]

Scientists are unanimous that culling Namibia’s seals this year makes no sense. But the government is persisting . Fiona Macleod reports AN urgent appeal has been made to the Namibian ombudsman to intervene in the government’s plan to cull thousands of seals this year, which scientists have warned threatens to wipe out the country’s entire […]

Thebe Investment’s latest venture is into the entertainment business, reports Reg Rumney THE formation of a joint venture between cinema chain Ster-Kinekor and Moribo Investments, the subsidiary of ANC-linked Thebe Investments specialising in sport, entertainment and sporting ventures, aims to bring cinemas to black areas. It kicked off with the opening of a cinema in […]

Two transvestites, a stripper and a urologist’s secretary were interviewed live on stage last week. Michael Dresden was there CHARLES J FOURIE, the award-winning Afrikaans fringe-close-to-centre playwright and sometime director, is the ringleader of an extraordinary new series of shows at Cape Town’s Long Street Theatre. The format is a live interview, on stage, and […]