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A small town’s morning of terror

Article Philippa Garson - 9 Dec 2014

Reporter Philippa Garson arrives in Ermelo on a routine assignment ... and drives into teargas and violence.

Was Boipatong an act of vengeance?

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Jun 2012

A white policeman was killed shortly before the Boipatong massacre - but police dismiss any link between the two events as "absolute silliness".

Day of the gallows

Article Weekly Mail Reporters - 26 May 1994

On Wednesday, Anton Koen and James Henry Cohen, both convicted of common law murder, were taken to the gallows.

ANC’S banana boy with a slippery mission

Article Stephen Laufer - 22 Apr 1994

Jacob Zuma, the ANC's Natal/kwaZulu premier, is a man at ease in his own ability - which is just as well considering the task that lies ahead of him.

Confessions of a moffie kid

Article Charlotte Bauer - 25 Feb 1994

Zackie Achmat, aged 10 when he seduced his first grown-up, tells his life story in a new collection of gay essays.

Call for state health scheme

Article Reg Rumney - 3 Jul 1992

Masa has advocated a radical reshaping of the way health care is provided and paid for in South Africa.

A winning solution

Article Gavin Evans - 3 Jul 1992

The African National Congress has deftly turned certain defeat into a minor triumph with its right turn on a renewed sports boycott.

UK activists to revive sanctions

Article Arthur Gavshon - 3 Jul 1992

Archbishop Trevor Huddleston confirmed that most SA church leaders had agreed to lead a new campaign of civil defiance against the government.

Commonwealth chief jets in unexpectedly

Article Weekly Mail Reporters - 3 Jul 1992

Last night's urgent visit by the Commonwealth's secretary general underlines the organisation's role as primary peace-broker in the SA conflict.

Watch out FW, the crunch is coming

Article Weekly Mail Reporter - 3 Jul 1992

Last night the government was due to announce its response to the ANC's 14 conditions for the resumption of talks.

Where a massacre is a way of life

Article Weekly Mail Reporter - 3 Jul 1992

Boipatong was just the latest in a series of masscares on the Reef which average tow a month and claim on average 25 lives, reports Beathur Baker.

Stand by for Emergency IV

Article Shaun Johnson - 9 Jun 1989

In recent weeks, extra-parliamentary resistance groups have experienced a pleasant deja vu.

Chikane was poisoned, say doctors

Article Thandeka Gqubule - 9 Jun 1989

Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, has narrowly escaped death after being mysteriously poisoned.

Walking through Alex with Moses Mayekiso

Article Shaun Johnson - 2 Jun 1989

The last time Moses Mayekiso walked up Alexandra's 7th Avenue, its squalid shacks were framed by dark, thick smoke from burning barricades.

Inside our chaotic schools

Article Thandeka Gqubule - 2 Jun 1989

As described by a reporter who put on a gymslip and went off to school.

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