A century from now the foyer of the Park and Long building in Cape Town could be torn up by enthusiastic Mail & Guardian readers keen to see a real “dead tree” version of their favourite newspaper. A copy of our souvenir millennium edition is to be sealed in a time capsule and entombed in […]
Weekly Mail Reporter Two Weekly Mail journalists, co-editor Anton Harber and freelance reporter Jo-Anne Bekker, were this week found guilty of contempt of court for three articles on the Delmas treason trial which appeared in last Friday’s edition of the newspaper. Mr Justice K van Dijkhorst, the presiding judge in the Delmas trial, sentenced Harber […]
The little-publicised treason trial of 22 men at Delmas took a surprise turn this week when a young state witness said that she fabricated her evidence after being sjambokked in detention.
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/ 17 January 1986
Weekly Mail’s news editor Anton Harber is suing the minister of Law and Order for damages in the first series of actions arising from assaults on journalists during the first elections for the House of Delegates in 1984. Harber, who was the Rand Daily Mail’s political reporter, was assaulted by a group of vigilantes outside […]
Matthew Goniwe? Just one more death. Just one more death that could shake our country. ANTON HARBER reports on the Cradock community leader, pictured on the right, who was murdered last week. Who will pay for the murder of Matthew Goniwe? No doubt, we all will. For when this vital, powerful leader of the Cradock […]