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Right of Reply: M&G chose ‘good story’ over truth — Buthelezi

Opinion Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP - 5 Jun 2020

Mangosuthu Buthelezi says the Ingonyama Trust was not created in a secret deal to ensure his participation in the 1994 election

Human Rights Day: South Africa continues to neglect the legacy of Robert Sobukwe

Article Thando Sipuye - 20 Mar 2020

The memory of the influential former leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress has been shunted to the margins in the country’s sham democracy

Real-life spy drama reads like a novel

Article Paddy Harper - 28 Feb 2020

How Moe Shaik went from ANC spy to boss of the secret service in the democratic South Africa

Unfinished business: We need self-examination to heal from apartheid

Analysis Eusebius McKaiser - 27 Feb 2020

Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars

Apartheid criminals still at large

Article Ilham Rawoot - 21 Feb 2020

Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity

FW’s ‘truth’ a sickening read

Article Paddy Harper - 21 Feb 2020

He’s apologised now, but my week was ruined when I had to delve into his past

Editorial: Dealing with the sins of yesteryear

Article Editorial - 21 Feb 2020

Life moves at a heady pace in South Africa and with it the march of history. In dealing with the sins of yesterday we must realise that we have to also deal with the sins of yesteryear

Cradock Four back to haunt De Klerk

Article Paddy Harper - 20 Feb 2020

Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings during apartheid

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Ramaphosa makes peace with Malema over gender-based violence comments

Article Lester Kiewit - 20 Feb 2020

In his Sona response, the president apologised for the weaponising of gender-based violence, saying the attack on the red beret leader was "uncalled for"

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EFF ‘circus’ becomes contagion as MPs heckle Malema

Article Lester Kiewit - 18 Feb 2020

ANC MPs test the EFF’s disruptive tactics on the leader of the Red Berets in Sona reply

De Klerk now admits apartheid was a crime against humanity

Article Lester Kiewit - 17 Feb 2020

Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot

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February 11 1990: Mandela’s media conquest

Article Sean Jacobs - 17 Feb 2020

Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was also South Africa’s first ‘media event’. And, despite the NP’s, and the SABC’s, attempt to control the narrative, the force of Madiba’s personality meant that he emerged as a celebrity

A Sona to reflect troubled times

Article Bongekile Macupe & Khadija Patel - 13 Feb 2020

Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times

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The State of the Nation speech Ramaphosa should make

Article Piet Naudé - 13 Feb 2020

I have been slow but steady in rebuilding South Africa, but it’s time for tough, decisive action

Zuma lawyers confirm he will not be attending Sona

Article Lester Kiewit - 12 Feb 2020

The former president’s lawyers say they do not know how where Parliament obtained the information about his attendance

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