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Former arms deal critics Hennie van Vuuren, Andrew Feinstein and Paul Holden, in Pretoria. (Photograph by Gallo Images/Foto24/Craig Niewenhuizen)
ARMS DEAL

South African arms deal not over yet

A three-year challenge has reversed the findings of the Seriti commission

  • Tymon Smith
9 min read
The two main interrogators in the Ahmed Timol case were both alive for many years and the family knew their whereabouts, but both died before that inquest was reopened. (Image via www.ahmedtimol.co.za)
AHMED TIMOL

Can the NPA save face on unresolved apartheid deaths?

Doors have opened for the Timol, Simelane and Aggett families but doubts still linger about the NPA’s behaviour and culpability

  • Tymon Smith
9 min read
Leader: Hermann Overbeek has been at Nooitgedacht 88 primary school for 35 years and has seen the school through a number of changes, always in the presence of that bastion of conservatism. (Paul Botes/M&G)
AFRIKANER CONSERVATIVES

Belief can move mountains – and transform schools

It only takes a good human being, who treats everyone with respect, to cast doubt on one’s ability to kill off God

  • Tymon Smith
12 min read