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Weekly Mail starts Cape Edition

Cape readers will now receive a special edition of the Weekly Mail.

Protest at clamps on ANC funeral

The family would apply to hold the funeral on Sunday or on a day next week.

A long way from home. A small step closer to hope

You have travelled far and suffered much pursuing freedom for your country … Frederik van Slabbert yesterday

Women land two major SACC posts

Dr Manas Buthelezi of the Evangelical Lutheran Church was last night re-elected president of the SA Council of Churches.

Afrikaans leaders to see ANC

The conference will be hosted by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (Idasa).

Dispute over court president’s ‘bias’

Advocate Martin Brassey noted the seminar was also addressed by Sarmcol’s legal team.

Weekly Mail in challenge to regulations

The first major legal challenge to the new Emergency regulations is being launched today by the Weekly Mail and two other applicants.

A cruel glimpse of freedom …

A cruel few seconds of freedom — that’s what the end of the first year of the Emergency meant to about 3 000 detainees.

Where a massacre is a way of life

Boipatong was just the latest in a series of masscares on the Reef which average tow a month and claim on average 25 lives, reports Beathur Baker.

Watch out FW, the crunch is coming

Last night the government was due to announce its response to the ANC’s 14 conditions for the resumption of talks.

Panama or Cape, the cargo’s still lethal

A Japanese ship containing one ton of plutonium – enough to kill South Africa’s entire population, is scheduled to leave the French port of Cherbourg.

The press must change — Mandela

The three conglomerates that own South Africa’s media should break up to ensure an independent and outspoken press, urges the ANC leader.

Unheralded and unnoticed, a nation is born

A new nation is being created, almost unnoticed, in troubled Horn of Africa.

Young lion prepares to challenge for leadership

Zambian elections: It looks like the end of the road for an African strong-man.

Somafco pupils wait to come home

The Solo­mon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somafco) in Tanzania for South African refugees has recently closed.

Kaunda warned: Retire or you’ll be humiliated

Kenneth Kaunda’s power is threatened.

Court told of secret police death squad

​Details of a secret police hit squad of "African National Congress defectors", called the Askari Group, emerged in the Cape Supreme Court yesterday.

In full: Mandela’s letter to Buthelezi

The full text of the recent letter from Nelson Mandela to Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

The Mandela Letter

Nelson Mandela has sent his “very best wishes" to Margaret Thatcher — but has not praised her for her work on the South African issue.

A banning costs Godfrey R420 a day

If Godfrey Moekoa is to keep to the terms of his Emergency restriction or­der, it will cost him about R420 every day.