This is an edited version of former co-editor Irwin Manoim’s speech delivered at a reunion of those who were there when the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, was founded 40 years ago on 14 June
Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair
With both countries intent on keeping in check the ‘barbarians at the gate’, South Africa used its uranium reserves and Israeli technical support to develop its nuclear programme
The End Conscription Campaign was the poster child for irreverent, powerful protest
The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon
Ehlers was in the apartheid government’s inner sanctum. By 1994, he found a new source of income in the killing fields of Rwanda
Sazi Bongwe’s branding of the late professor as a ‘villain of apartheid’ and advisor to PW Botha is false, slanderous and unethical
The lost story of the Harvard government professor, Samuel P Huntington’s strategies from across the equator
South Africa’s silence on Russian aggression is a blot on its commitment to international law and our country’s history
The problem with a racial superiority complex is that it does not come to an end with the abolishment of discriminatory laws but finds its expression informally
Whether national security should be located inside or outside the presidency must be considered based on functionality and constitutional values
The signs are there that the Israeli state may have ‘won’ the most recent battle against Palestinians but could be losing the protracted war, especially in the court of public opinion
‘The choice we are faced with is to submit or fight’
Beautiful voices, good laughs and sadness in this film, about religion, war and conscripts during apartheid
The author was probing new leads after linking apartheid-era ministers to a paedophile ring
‘Lost Boys’ co-author Mark Minnie was reportedly found dead on Monday in Port Elizabeth
Apartheid’s ministers must account for their crimes and we too need to confront them
Judging her by long-held patriarchal standards only exposes our society’s misogynistic gaze
We find ourselves in a vitriolic debate about our history —who did what, why did they do it, who can be trusted and who sold out
The land is not just the dusty earth on which we stand. It is an affirmation of self. It is the urgent aspiration for dignity and agency.
As the architects of apartheid, it’s time for black people to collectively say sorry for the system Mandela designed to exploit white people.
The FW de Klerk foundation has said Zuma’s comments regarding the distinction between proper state expenditure and self-enrichment are disturbing.
Colonialism and apartheid came and went, but the defining symbol of status – a farm – remains the same.
Did the rupture of a blood vessel in PW Botha’s brain prevent SA from starting the process of a negotiated settlement in 1985 rather than in 1990?
Hermann Giliomee explains how former president PW Botha’s Rubicon speech increased white South Africa’s isolation in 1985.
A US academic told the <em>M&G</em> on Tuesday that Pik Botha would not have known about discussions with the Israel regarding nuclear weapons.
Israel never "negotiated the exchange" of nuclear weapons with South Africa, President Shimon Peres said on Monday.
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/ 28 September 2008
Zuma has confirmed that it was Motlanthe’s beard, and his ability to stroke it in a reassuring manner, that won him the coveted position.
Mugabe is a bad man. Make no mistake. But who is to say that FW de Klerk or PW Botha or any of their Cabinet ministers were saints?
Tony Bensusan’s documentary on the formation of the United Democratic Front 25 years ago is a voyeuristic journey into disparate moments.
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.
The National Party failed last night to resolve the battle between South Africa’s two most powerful men.