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25 Years Ago

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/ 2 June 1989

The beautiful village where the winds blow death

After Mokhurane Thobejane died from breathing the killer dust, so many followed that it became a tradition to bury and forget.

By Eddie Koch
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/ 26 May 1989

The most wanted man slips through police fingers again…

​Peter Ramoshoane Mokaba is out of prison – yet again.

By Musa Zondi Author
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/ 26 May 1989

​Cheers and fists as Strydom gets death

The atmosphere was electric as hundreds of people waited for the sentence, amid a heavy police presence.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 19 May 1989

Is state preparing to lift Emergency?

The current Emergency expires in less than a month’s time, on June 10..

By Shaun Johnson
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/ 19 May 1989

Inside the Wit Wolwe

Details of cell structure and a ‘mandate’ to kill … but police don’t believe him.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 12 May 1989

European sends a stinging diplomatic rebuke over Mogopa

?Twelve European governments yesterday delivered a joint démarche – one of the sternest forms of diplomatic protest – to the foreign ministry.

By Eddie Koch
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/ 28 April 1989

Judge outvoted – so three will hang

Three men were sentenced to death yesterday after a judge was overruled by two civil servants’ in the "Delmas Two" treason trial.

By Vusi Gunene
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/ 28 April 1989

Shackled: The last hunger strike in hospital

The shackled, hospital patient, Charles Malunga, showed his chains to journalists this week.

By Thandeka Gqubule
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/ 21 April 1989

In full: Mandela’s letter to Buthelezi

The full text of the recent letter from Nelson Mandela to Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 21 April 1989

Hospital row over shackled patients

Prisoners recovering from hunger strike are being chained to their beds in the Johannesburg Hospital. The move is causing an uproar among doctors.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 21 April 1989

The hunger strike has ended

The nine-week-old detainees hunger strike has ended.

By Gavin Evans
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/ 14 April 1989

The Mandela Letter

Nelson Mandela has sent his “very best wishes" to Margaret Thatcher — but has not praised her for her work on the South African issue.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 7 April 1989

Crocker flies in to douse the war flames

A multi-pronged international initiative is under way to rescue the stricken Namibian independence process from total collapse.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 7 April 1989

Behind the border battle

A fateful order from ‘Comrade Danger’ led to distater.

By Shaun Johnson
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/ 31 March 1989

Maggie to visit Namibia

A surprise visit by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Namibia tomorrow.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 23 March 1989

My life as a saboteur

Former guerilla Thandi Modise, recently released after eight years in prison for sabotage, tells how she fled South Africa for military training.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 23 March 1989

Warlords get police ‘help’, says Cosatu

Startling allegations that police are actively backing Inkatha warlords in the Pietermaritzburg civil war were made at a press conference.

By Eddie Koch
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/ 17 March 1989

Two kinds of rape. One’s legal

The implications of the controversial new rape law can be best understood by considering the case of a man separated from his wife …

By Thandeka Gqubule
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/ 17 March 1989

FW vs PW. From how, the war’s private

The battle between PW and FW is not over, it’’s just gone underground. Crucial factors on PW’s side have been the black holes in his own constitution.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 10 March 1989

Battle of the bald eagles

The National Party failed last night to resolve the battle between South Africa’s two most powerful men.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 3 March 1989

PW bounces back and that little ray of glasnot dims

It had been generally assumed that PW Botha would return to office for a brief period, then retire gracefully.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 3 March 1989

Sinister soccer man

The strange and suspicious history of Winnie’s coach.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 24 February 1989

Soccer team feud in bloody spiral

As gun-fire kills child, the puzzle is: Who is really behind this club?

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 24 February 1989

Puzzle of the bogus ‘HSRC’ research

Bogus questionnaires bearing the name of the HSRC are being used by a shadowy group apparently linked to state intelligence.

By Carmel Rickard
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/ 17 February 1989

Winnie banished – by her own people

Winnie Mandela has begun a term of banishment and internal exile in Soweto much harsher than her eight years of isolation in Brandfort.

By Shaun Johnson
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/ 10 February 1989

Vlok’s prison strike crisis

The detainees’ hunger strike now involving almost 300 inmates, seven of whom are in hospital is developing into a crisis for the government.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 10 February 1989

‘Comrades’ unearth missing Stompie’s body

"Stompie", who real name has been given as James Sepei, was one of four youths allegedly abducted from a Soweto church by the football team.

By Weekly Mail Reporter
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/ 3 February 1989

PW stuns the Nats

As MPs file into caucus meeting, a letter of resignation arrives.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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/ 3 February 1989

FW: The man who leaves no footprints

The new leader of the National Party and putative state president, FW de Klerk, is South Africa’s George Bush.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
Friday’s D-Day for Winnie’s team
Article
/ 3 February 1989

Friday’s D-Day for Winnie’s team

Today is expected to be D-Day for the "football team" associated with Winnie Mandela.

By Thandeka Gqubule
Soweto anger at Winnie team’
Article
/ 27 January 1989

Soweto anger at Winnie team’

Widespread grievances over the activities of the "football team" associated with Winnie Mandela came to a head at a major community meeting.

By Thandeka Gqubule
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/ 20 January 1989

A lesson from Sol: it’s OK if it’s over the Kei

South African politicians and businessmen can be caught committing fraud and bribery and lying publicly and survive.

By Weekly Mail Reporters
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