The National Party government used a collective effort — social, cultural, linguistic, political and financial — to prop up poor white people
Journalists today are operating in a fairly hostile climate. Two great men died.
That the public protector’s finding on Absa is going to become a terrible political mess is inevitable, writes Phillip de Wet.
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/ 19 January 2008
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has come out in support of the chief prosecutor of Pretoria’s decision to withdraw charges against advocate Gerrie Nel, head of the Scorpions in Gauteng, it said on Friday. The Pretoria Regional Court this week withdrew charges of corruption and defeating the ends of justice against Nel.
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/ 15 November 2007
Piet Koornhof, who died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre on Monday at the age of 82, following a stroke, was a man of contradictions. Seen as a ”verligte” in successive apartheid-era Cabinets, the posts he accepted carried responsibility for some of apartheid’s most bizarre and inhumane policies.
Do not adjust your sets – the spirit of ‘glasnost’ that’s sweeping the country won’t reach the SABC, if the Broederbond has anything to do with it.