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/ 8 September 1989
After 12 years as a policeman, Lieutenant Gregor Rockman made an unprecedented decision on the day of the election.
The five-day protest action took place in response to a call from the restricted Western Cape Students’ Congress (Wecsco).
The government is in a pre-election panic putting pence into pensioners’ pockets in the hope that it will pay off at the polls.
Grassroots journalist Veliswa Mhlawuli emerged from five months detention last week to learn her newspaper had been banned for three months.
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/ 2 December 1988
The solitary martyr is no longer alone. Conscientious objector Ivan Toms has been joined by
others.
The first moment of freedom: Trevor Manuel and Whitey Jacobs were released from prison yesterday.
Eleven treason trialists are on hunger strike – because the blacks among them are denied privileges granted to the whites.
Prevented from leaving, paid R5 a day for shifts of up to 15 hours … a glimpse into the harsh life of the farm labourer.
The 15 defendants were each sentenced to six months on contempt of court charges after a spate of singing, chanting and dancing.
Independent MP Jan van Eck mediates between pupils and riot police at Engjongo primary school.