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Eddie Koch

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Eddie Koch

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Third force weekly mail 1992

From the archives: For the first time, an insiders’ account of the Third Force

Two young gangsters give an horrific account of how they were encouraged, equipped and trained to carry out violence against ANC-linked targets by the security forces.

Growing The Grace

The Grace in Rosebank, one of Johannesburg’s oldest hotels, is soon to unveil a new conference venue. Work is under way upgrading the hotel’s function rooms, which up until now…

Turning terror into tourism

First it was the penal colony on Robben Island, then the Old Fort at Constitution Hill. Now a decaying army base on the edge of the Blyde River Canyon, in Mpumalanga, has become…

Frogging good fun

When you are stuck knee-deep in a crocodile-infested bog — your way lit only by the twinkling of the Milky Way and the black night filled with a cacophony of croaking, singing,…

Taking a different turn

Twice a year the Chrissiesmeer shop owners put up signs on their doors that say, "Gone Frogging". Instead of preparing for World Tourism Day on September 27 by publishing a set…

Military ‘third force’ walks free

With the passing of the final TRC amnesty deadline, there have been many surprising revelations.

President tames the Afrikaner tiger

MINUTES after PW Botha this week warned Nelson Mandela against waking the tiger of Afrikaner nationalism, a brown tabby cat wandered into the press conference and began rubbing…

Mandela meeting for Sinn Fein’s Adams

SINN Fein president Gerry Adams jets into South Africa next week on a high-profile visit that includes talks with President Nelson Mandela. His trip will bolster the Irish…

What will the GNU protect? The cattle or the wildebeest?

An ANC policy document makes some controversial proposals for the future of game parks under a new Government of National Unity. Eddie Koch reports.

Mandela goes Green

A hunting trip converts the ANC leader to conservation.

Who are these whites behind the rooidoeke?

United Nations secretary general Perez de Cuellar has expressed serious concern about the role of security force members in the Reef violence.

Out rolls a shiny Madibamobile

What kind of Mercedes Benz rolls off the assembly line wrapped in cellophane paper and plastered with stickers proclaiming the virtues of the SACP?

Chemical groups try to silence allegations about crop devastation

Seventeen chemical companies are trying to suppress allegations that their herbicides are causing massive damage to South Africa’s ecology.

Renamo’s secret SA bases

David Webster knew of three mobile Renamo bases.

Weekly Mail ‘buys’ convicts – at R1.40 each

Weekly Mail writer Eddie Koch went to prison this week – and came back with two convicts, his for the day for just R1.40 each

Koeberg’s two faces

Eskom takes Eddie Koch on a tour to prove that Koeberg os perfectly safe …

FW tells how report led to PW’s panic

​Acting State President FW de Klerk this week suggested that inferences were made as a result of reports in … a little paper called the Weekly Mail.

Motor strike: Most workers may be back on Monday

​The marathon wage strike in the automobile industry has entered its 10th day.

Revealed: Vlok’s ‘terror plot’ document

Violence blue-print turns out to be a union report … in which bloodshed is never mentioned.

The beautiful village where the winds blow death

After Mokhurane Thobejane died from breathing the killer dust, so many followed that it became a tradition to bury and forget.