A wave of unprecedented violence and protest swept the country this week on a bigger scale than in the 1984-86 period.
Two magistrates and a regional prosecutor were released this week after their lawyers threatened to file a supreme court interdict.
Dissident policeman Gregory Rockman was fired last night as police and prison warders continued their national sit-in.
Jacob Zuma, the African National Congress’s chief of intelligence, never attended school.
Anton Lubowski had received money from South African Intelligence funds.
Three decades ago this week, police opened fire on an unarmed crowd in a small Vaal township.
Intelligence chief Zuma slips in quietly … with more executives due on Sunday.
There could be a role, after all, for an outside ”mediator” in the process of negotiations in South Africa.
More than 70 State of Emergency detainees in the Vaal Triangle and Free State have embarked on a hunger strike.
David Webster knew of three mobile Renamo bases.
A nice, bloody morning in the cheap seats at the bug-house.
And it will not necessarily be the fault of the commissioner, Mr Justice Louis ‘ Harms.
There was black smoke everywhere, and the people sang: ‘Today Mangope must resign’
The star witness to the Harms commission tells nonchalantly how he murdered, stole, tortured and cheated. How many people has he killed?
A phone-call to Coetsee breaks prisons stalemate.
African National Congress and South African government representatives held a round of preliminary talks in London last weekend.
Two days before being gunned down outside his Windhoek home, Swapo member Anton Lubowski told a friend he was in trouble.
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/ 23 February 1990
Six people have died in police custody in the last month, and lawyers and human rights activists are now calling for judicial enquiries.
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/ 16 February 1990
There were 150 000 dreams at Soccer City on Tuesday.
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/ 12 February 1990
Yesterday’s newspapers turned into today’s placards as thousands of Sowetans packed Jabulani stadium.
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/ 12 February 1990
In the South Africa of the future, February 11 will be a public holiday. On Sunday it was the day of liberation.
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/ 9 February 1990
Vrye Weekblad journalist Charles Leonard was being brutally beaten by riot squad police while reporting on student celebrations.
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/ 9 February 1990
The African National Congress has been slow in responding to the challenge thrown out by State President FW de Klerk.
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/ 9 February 1990
A handful of taxis made it through to the stadium, but were swiftly forced off the road by traffic police and then ordered to move on.
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/ 2 February 1990
According to the NP source Pik Botha was ”terrified of a Rubicon repeat” and wanted Nelson Mandela to be released on Monday January 29.
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/ 2 February 1990
Insider descriptions of life in the riot squad and training in ‘dirty tricks’.
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/ 2 February 1990
Mike Gatting’s reaction was extraordinary. As he approached Segonetco he said quietly: ”Oh dear, poor fellow.”
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/ 26 January 1990
After nine months no one has been charged with the murder of David Webster. The only suspect appears to have had a small role.
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/ 26 January 1990
Three senior officers have all denied responsibility for an incident during June 1986 in which four youths were killed.
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/ 26 January 1990
A year after the death of ”people’s doctor” and political activist Abu Baker Asvat, his surgery, once a haven for Soweto’s destitute, stands empty.
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/ 19 January 1990
The Weekly Mail’s Thami Mkhwanazi gets an invitation to the home of Swapo leader Sam Nujoma.
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/ 19 January 1990
A Western Transvaal youth who died in police custody this week under disputed circumstances has been identified as Mbuyiselo Nicholas Phiri.