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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
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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/ 9 December 1988
A non-interview with the banned Govan Mbeki about the day when he last saw Nelson Mandela.
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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
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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/ 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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/ 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
In the same week, three separate cases put a reluctant military under the spotlight.
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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.
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.
The old catch-phrase was ‘making the townships ungovernable’. This township is just plain non-governed …
SWAPO will not provide military bases in Namibia from which the African National Congress can strike into South Africa.
PW Botha can’t bring himself to free Nelson Mandela; but he also can’t hold him forever.
Mandela had his first contact visit in 1979 when, he was allowed to sit in the same room with his wife, Winnie.