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25 Years Ago

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/ 18 August 1989

Embassy in plan to split Tutu, Boesak

Washington anti-sanctions plan to ‘drive a great wedge’ into opposition.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 11 August 1989

A rough welcome for singing crowds

​Hundreds of singing workers rode the trains yesterday to attend a trial of 47 colleagues charged with … disturbing the peace by singing on trains.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 11 August 1989

Motor strike: Most workers may be back on Monday

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

By Eddie Koch
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/ 11 August 1989

ANC unveils peace plan

Detailed peace plan similar to Namibia’s is put to frontline leaders.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 11 August 1989

Graduation party ready to go

According to the SA Prisons Service and the ANC leaders, Nelson Mandela’s graduation party will definitely take place.

By Thandeka Gqubule
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/ 11 August 1989

Pik, Gerrit, Stoffel met Mandela

Named: The four men in Kobie’s Coetsee’s talks team

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 4 August 1989

Kobie’s months of secret Mandela meetings

Nelson Mandela, has been involved in ”serious dialogue” with senior members of the government for almost three years.

By Hennie Serfontein
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/ 4 August 1989

After this week, white hospitals can never be the same

?Before this week, a visit to the hospital for Patricia Khumalo of kwaMashu would take the whole day.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 28 July 1989

Revealed: Vlok’s ‘terror plot’ document

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

By Eddie Koch
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/ 28 July 1989

Students take to streets in week-long protests

The five-day protest action took place in response to a call from the restricted Western Cape Students’ Congress (Wecsco).

By Gaye Davis
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/ 21 July 1989

Sorry, De Klerk, the UDF beat you to it

​In an extraordinary diplomatic turnabout, President-elect FW de Klerk has been upstaged by the UDF leaders currently touring Western capitals.

By Anton Harber
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/ 21 July 1989

Unions on course for mass action

​Trade unions representing over a million workers are on course for national strike action.

By Drew Forrest
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/ 21 July 1989

Mail, Sowetan journalists face charges

​Four journalists were yesterday served with summonses to appear in court to face charges.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 21 July 1989

The odd history of sanctions busting bishop

Mzilikazi Fanie Masiya is the leader of the Jesus Christ for Peace, Council for Apostolic Churches in Southern Africa.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 14 July 1989

Mandela plans to see union leaders

​Nelson Mandela is believed to have drawn up a wider list of people he wants to consult with.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 7 July 1989

Mangope’s reign of terror

Vusi Gunene reports on the aftermath of the weekend killings.

By Vusi Gunene
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/ 7 July 1989

A brazen ploy … but good news for the old

The government is in a pre-election panic putting pence into pensioners’ pockets in the hope that it will pay off at the polls.

By Gaye Davis
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/ 30 June 1989

New Emperor, same old clothes

The Nats unveil their much ballyhooed ‘Five Year Plan’ … but it signals no great changes.

By Kevin Davie
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/ 30 June 1989

What UDF group will tell Bush: Increase the pressure

​Tighten financial sanctions against South Africa- that’s what United Democratic Front leaders will tell US President George Bush this morning.

By Anton Harber
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/ 23 June 1989

Open City opens – despite demos

Fifty volunteers are giving up all their comforts for two days to experience the Group Areas Act at first hand.

By Thami Mkhwanazi
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/ 23 June 1989

Don’t queue-jump, FW

Before De Klerk can get close to Bush, he’ll have to let UDF leaders see the President.

By Anton Harber
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/ 23 June 1989

Vrye Weekblad editor hits at state ‘vendetta’

In passing sentence Bredenkamp conceded that the article was ”indeed objective and not revolutionary”.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 15 June 1989

Thirteen years on, what’s happened to the June 16 generation?

​Thirteen years ago, the students of Soweto launched the country’s youth into the frontline of anti-apartheid opposition.

By Gavin Evans
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/ 15 June 1989

Adrian Vlok! Do you care about peace?

​Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok has become the stumbling block to the Natal peace talks.

By Carmel Rickard
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/ 15 June 1989

The day teenager Poppy ‘died’ and was reborn …

​For Poppy Buthelezi June 16 1976 marked the death of her dreams – but the start of her political growth.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 15 June 1989

A missing man at the one-hour ANC trial: Witness Hugh Lugg

​One person was conspicuously absent from the ”Broederstroom” trial this week: Hugh Lugg, a member of the all-white ANC military cell.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 9 June 1989

Stand by for Emergency IV

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

By Shaun Johnson
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/ 9 June 1989

Chikane was poisoned, say doctors

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

By Thandeka Gqubule
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/ 9 June 1989

An eyewitness account from inside China

A two-pronged attack from the east and west shattered all illusions in Beijing on Saturday morning.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 2 June 1989

Walking through Alex with Moses Mayekiso

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

By Shaun Johnson
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/ 2 June 1989

Inside our chaotic schools

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

By Thandeka Gqubule
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/ 2 June 1989

Court told of secret police death squad

​Details of a secret police hit squad of "African National Congress defectors", called the Askari Group, emerged in the Cape Supreme Court yesterday.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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