Belinda Beresford
Belinda Beresford is an award-winning journalist and the former health and deputy news editor of the Mail & Guardian. She now lives in the United States.
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/ 29 May 2008

A family betrayed

Marius Schoon, father of the murdered Katryn Schoon, died in February 1999 of lung cancer at the age of 61. He had still not forgiven Craig Williamson, a man he once considered a friend. After returning to South Africa from exile in 1991 Schoon spent his final years working at the Development Bank of South Africa.

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/ 29 May 2008

The spy who lost it

Apartheid killer Craig Williamson was declared bankrupt by the Johannesburg High Court last week, in the only form of legal justice he will probably ever face. His nemesis is the 26-year-old son of one of his victims, who as a toddler saw his mother and sister blown apart by a parcel bomb in their Angolan home in June 1984.

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/ 29 May 2008

Craig Williamson: Apartheid careerist

Craig Williamson applied for amnesty for the murders of Ruth First in Mozambique in 1982 and of Jeannette and Katryn Schoon in 1984 in Angola. He also applied for amnesty for his role in the bombing of the ANC’s offices in London in 1982. In 1971 he had been recruited into the intelligence arm of the police.

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/ 2 May 2008

A Swazi success story

When a class of 40 newly graduated Swazi nurses left the country en masse a few years ago, the government decided it had to find an effective way to stem the loss of this precious human resource. The solution was to create the Swaziland Wellness Centre, a place where healthcare workers receive medical attention themselves.

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/ 2 May 2008

KZN’s bad medicine

The Human Rights Commission has been asked to investigate the KwaZulu-Natal minister of health after she used her budget speech to the provincial parliament to allege that rural doctors in the province were racist and had abused staff. In her speech this week health minister Peggy Nkonyeni detailed seven allegations against Mark Blaylock and some of his colleagues at Manguzi Hospital.