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Ivor Powell

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Ivor Powell

Smoke and mirrors

Ivor Powell is the former investigator who penned the Browse Mole report. Here he describes the hype and distortions surrounding the document.

The Broederbond – getting well into the SABC’s picture

Do not adjust your sets – the spirit of ‘glasnost’ that’s sweeping the country won’t reach the SABC, if the Broederbond has anything to do with it.

The ex-cop who betrayed Dirt Coetzee

How the captain’s private letters fell into the hands of the state.

Lubowski ‘got money in a secret fund’

Anton Lubowski had received money from South African Intelligence funds.

It was easier to kill than do paper work

The star witness to the Harms commission tells nonchalantly how he murdered, stole, tortured and cheated. How many people has he killed?

Casino link to Lubowski death

Two days before being gunned down outside his Windhoek home, Swapo member Anton Lubowski told a friend he was in trouble.

The day the people claimed back their cities

In the South Africa of the future, February 11 will be a public holiday. On Sunday it was the day of liberation.

Policemen ‘lied to inquest’

Insider descriptions of life in the riot squad and training in ‘dirty tricks’.

Holomisa explains the row with SA

Transkei military ruler Major-General Bantu Holomisa’s war with ”Big Brother” South Africa.

Secret papers hold ‘hit squad’ key

In two forgotten trials, court told of documents so explosive not even lawyers could see them.

Death-row policeman tells of SB ‘hit-squad’

Affidavit implicates top officers in murder of lawyer Griffiths Mxenge.