Pw Botha
latest news & developmentsKim Berman’s fire sermon
The artist’s latest exhibition, spanning 40 years, celebrates ‘the victory of memory over forgetting’
Bitching and moaning. For a cause
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…
Elon Musk and the irony of calling black economic empowerment racist
Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair
Secret alliance: Israel and apartheid South Africa’s nuclear collaboration
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
Giving apartheid the finger
The End Conscription Campaign was the poster child for irreverent, powerful protest
Name changes: The long road to a national identity
The change of street and place names rouses the country’s attention unlike anything else and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon
Ters Ehlers: One man, two crimes against humanity
Ehlers was in the apartheid government’s inner sanctum. By 1994, he found a new source of income in the killing fields of Rwanda
Harvard legend Samuel Huntington was not an apartheid advisor
Sazi Bongwe’s branding of the late professor as a ‘villain of apartheid’ and advisor to PW Botha is false, slanderous and unethical
When PW Botha listened to the Harvard man
The lost story of the Harvard government professor, Samuel P Huntington’s strategies from across the equator
South Africa can damn Putin and stay non-aligned in the West
South Africa’s silence on Russian aggression is a blot on its commitment to international law and our country’s history
White South Africans must not follow De Klerk’s example and apologise for apartheid but commit to restoration
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
Who the State Security Agency reports to should not depend on current roleplayers
Whether national security should be located inside or outside the presidency must be considered based on functionality and constitutional values
Palestine could be taking a South African direction
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…
EXCLUSIVE: OR Tambo’s forgotten speech at Chatham House
‘The choice we are faced with is to submit or fight’
‘Kanarie’: Coming out in a silenced era
Beautiful voices, good laughs and sadness in this film, about religion, war and conscripts during apartheid