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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.
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/ 15 December 1989
In two forgotten trials, court told of documents so explosive not even lawyers could see them.
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/ 8 December 1989
Weekly Mail reporter Philip Molefe slips into a marking centre and discovers some extraordinary practices …
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/ 8 December 1989
?President FW de Klerk’s Christmas present to conscripts provides instant relief to 35 000 young white men due to start military service in February.
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/ 1 December 1989
Held man a former police sergeant, insurance agent – and a convicted murderer.
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/ 1 December 1989
A senior delegation of visitors and observers watched this week as conflict erupted in Mpumalanga, Natal, leaving 18 dead.
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/ 1 December 1989
The extraordinary tale of the man who claimed this week to be Magnus Malan’s cousin…
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/ 1 December 1989
Long before his three daughters were born, Hungarian teacher Laszlo Polgar planned that they would grow up to be chess Grandmasters. And they have.
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/ 24 November 1989
Support for police assassination squads has come from the commanding heights of South Africa’s security forces.
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/ 24 November 1989
Man who followed Dirk Coetzee as ‘hit squad’ boss is linked to nine deaths.
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/ 24 November 1989
Beneath a menacing line of dangling plastic ‘corpses’, human rights lawyers call for an end to the death penalty this week.
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/ 17 November 1989
Before leaving the country, Dirk Coetzee told his story to Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad.
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/ 17 November 1989
Police shot two men inside the offices of Cosatu in Germiston while breaking up a meeting of striking railway workers yesterday afternoon.
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/ 10 November 1989
?The state is now hanging death row prisoners while denying them the legal access which might save their lives.
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/ 10 November 1989
The sooner the Food and Allied Workers Union and South African Breweries solve their dispute the better.
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/ 10 November 1989
An umbrella body of Africanist organisations is set to be officially launched.
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/ 10 November 1989
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
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/ 3 November 1989
Who gave Botha the phoney ‘Swapo attack’ message? Was he duped by his own securocrats?
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/ 3 November 1989
In the midst of allegations of security police assassination squads, Brigadier Willem Schoon has suddenly retired from the police force.
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/ 3 November 1989
The Supreme Court judge sharply criticised govÂernment policy on the treatment of conscientious objectors.
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/ 3 November 1989
New Nation newspaper was yesterday warned that it faces a suspension order for the second time.
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/ 27 October 1989
The news came through on the wires shortly before 10am last Friday – three men had been hanged at Pretoria Central Prison at dawn.
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/ 27 October 1989
I was told to kill these activists, says ‘hit-squad’ policeman on death-row.
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/ 27 October 1989
?The future of mass protest and of government verligheid could depend on Sunday afternoon’s ”welcome home” rally for the seven released ANC leaders.
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/ 27 October 1989
The first-ever anti-apartheid organisation aimed specifically at Afrikaans-speakers is being launched.
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/ 20 October 1989
Affidavit implicates top officers in murder of lawyer Griffiths Mxenge.
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/ 20 October 1989
Holomisa took exception to remarks by Buthelezi at the lnkatha Women’s Brigade Conference last weekend.
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/ 13 October 1989
The releases of Walter Sisulu and seven other political prisoners are expected to begin on Sunday and the MDM is planning marches and rallies.
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/ 13 October 1989
A stunned Lieutenant Gregory Rockman’s first words after the acquittal yesterday of two riot policemen charged with assault were:
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/ 13 October 1989
Sitting watching an historic news bulletin on SABC television on Tuesday night at Victor Verster Prison was a most extraordinary party.