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/ 15 December 1988
Jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela has obtained his LIB degree.
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/ 9 December 1988
A non-interview with the banned Govan Mbeki about the day when he last saw Nelson Mandela.
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/ 9 December 1988
His name is known around the globe, but his face has been unknown in his country. This week, all that changed.
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/ 9 December 1988
After 446 days, the mammoth Delmas Treason trial ends in surprise verdicts.
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/ 2 December 1988
Charles Bester, 18, refuses to serve in the SADF on the grounds that he is a Christian.
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/ 2 December 1988
The solitary martyr is no longer alone. Conscientious objector Ivan Toms has been joined by
others.
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/ 2 December 1988
We’re back. We’re still strong. And we’re ready to carry on fighting.
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/ 28 October 1988
The Minister of Home Affairs, Stoffel Botha, said last night that he had not yet made a decision on the future of the Weekly Mail.
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/ 28 October 1988
They have been dubbed the gunpoint elections – but it seems intensive security action failed to encourage black voters to go to the polls.
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/ 28 October 1988
Salman Rushdie published a ‘surrealist’ novel, Satanic Verses, still not available in South Africa.
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/ 21 October 1988
Why we did it – the first interview with one of the Kine fugitives.
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/ 21 October 1988
The prior voting system for the municipal elections has produced many ballots – and a rich crop of allegations of misconduct and fraud.
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/ 21 October 1988
Five youths claim they were held for 36 hours in a small police dogs’ cage.
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/ 14 October 1988
The grim is that if the flames had reached the bombs, it would have looked far worse.
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/ 14 October 1988
On October 26, Stoffel Botha will decide whether to suspend the Weekly Mail.
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/ 16 September 1988
Judgement will be given today deciding whether an Emergency regulation is valid.
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/ 16 September 1988
A mad, mad week in which an escape and a hijack overshadow PW’s carefully planned trip …
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/ 16 September 1988
Hours after three escaped detainees took refuge in the United States consul general’s office in Johannesburg this week …
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/ 9 September 1988
The Minister of Information, Stoffel van der Merwe, yesterday quoted a well-known South African political figure: Joe Slovo.
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/ 9 September 1988
The Labour Party, which brought parliament to a standstill two weeks ago used the Act to force Africans out of a ”mixed” area.
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/ 2 September 1988
The Alexandra Civic Association (ACA) is considering a plan for possible participation in the October 26 municipal elections.
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/ 2 September 1988
In the same week, three separate cases put a reluctant military under the spotlight.
The old catch-phrase was ‘making the townships ungovernable’. This township is just plain non-governed …
As announced last week, the price of the Weekly Mail is now R1,50.
Johannesburg hawkers launched a civil disobedience campaign to defy restrictions on informal trading – and already 23 hawkers have been arrested.
PW Botha can’t bring himself to free Nelson Mandela; but he also can’t hold him forever.
SWAPO will not provide military bases in Namibia from which the African National Congress can strike into South Africa.
Mandela had his first contact visit in 1979 when, he was allowed to sit in the same room with his wife, Winnie.