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/ 14 October 1988
On October 26, Stoffel Botha will decide whether to suspend the Weekly Mail.
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/ 16 September 1988
A mad, mad week in which an escape and a hijack overshadow PW’s carefully planned trip …
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/ 9 September 1988
The Minister of Information, Stoffel van der Merwe, yesterday quoted a well-known South African political figure: Joe Slovo.
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/ 9 September 1988
The Labour Party, which brought parliament to a standstill two weeks ago used the Act to force Africans out of a ”mixed” area.
Johannesburg hawkers launched a civil disobedience campaign to defy restrictions on informal trading – and already 23 hawkers have been arrested.
As announced last week, the price of the Weekly Mail is now R1,50.
SWAPO will not provide military bases in Namibia from which the African National Congress can strike into South Africa.
The government’s own Bureau for Information may have to register in terms of the new State of Emergency controls over ”news agencies”.
Amid massive foreign pressure, the government is backing down on plans to impose tight controls on foreign funding.
The Weekly Mail editors yesterday thanked people involved in the campaign to stop the minister from acting against the press.