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South Africa’s most prolific mass murderer takes another sip of coffee, eases back in his chair and pauses when asked if it is true he shot more than 100 black people. ”I can’t…
On the outskirts of Pretoria there used to be a large billboard which told passing motorists: ‘Thundering jets, the sound of freedom.’ The intention was to reconcile white…
The latest outputs of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission provide an extraordinary memorial to the South African conflict — proving that the real power of the…
On Friday night my power supplies were cut off. Nothing as big as North America mind, but still the cause of some localised disturbance. It happened at 2 o’clock in the morning…
Well, it had to happen sometime I guess. Statistics, if nothing else said so. I’d had one before, clambering through my window, but that was several years ago. More recently…
I have never been invited to be a spy. It is a detail of my career which, I must confess, has long irked me. Not that I would want to be a spy, but it would have been nice to…
The neurologist cursed and threw something into the rubbish bin. ”What’s gone wrong?” I asked nobody in particular. Her face popped up. ”Nothing is wrong,” she said happily. ”Why…
We smile affectionately at the Morris dancers and bow if introduced to the Queen. But it does seem to me that in the matter of ”games”, such as those currently taking place in…
As the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela scandal grows, so does the list of those who will testify against her.
<em>Katizas Journey</em> records how, at one point in his career as a petty thief, he stole 50c from a blind beggars tin cup. and recon
They retired to Orania to escape majority rule. Then South Africa’s first black president came to have tea with Hendrik Verwoerd’s widow. David Beresford was there
The presidential inauguration … The world’s leaders came to honour Nelson Mandela, the former convict who is now commander in chief.
The news came through on the wires shortly before 10am last Friday – three men had been hanged at Pretoria Central Prison at dawn.
