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Intrepid and enterprising: Eddie Koch

Campaigning journalist was a  ‘mensch’

Eddie Koch was a relentlessly determined reporter and the people he wrote about mattered

Growing The Grace

The Grace in Rosebank, one of Johannesburg’s oldest hotels, is soon to unveil a new conference venue. Work is under way upgrading the hotel’s function rooms, which up until now…

Frogging good fun

When you are stuck knee-deep in a crocodile-infested bog — your way lit only by the twinkling of the Milky Way and the black night filled with a cacophony of croaking, singing,…

Weird and wacky

Traditionally going on safari meant jumping on to the back of a Land Rover and checking out the wildlife in the Kruger. Now we have baby-making safaris, healing safaris, yoga…

Military ‘third force’ walks free

With the passing of the final TRC amnesty deadline, there have been many surprising revelations.

President tames the Afrikaner tiger

MINUTES after PW Botha this week warned Nelson Mandela against waking the tiger of Afrikaner nationalism, a brown tabby cat wandered into the press conference and began rubbing…

Mandela meeting for Sinn Fein’s Adams

SINN Fein president Gerry Adams jets into South Africa next week on a high-profile visit that includes talks with President Nelson Mandela. His trip will bolster the Irish…

A long struggle for copyright

FOUR black-and-white images of Nelson Mandela in his autobiography are at the centre of the row between Jim Bailey and a former Drum photographer.

What will the GNU protect? The cattle or the wildebeest?

An ANC policy document makes some controversial proposals for the future of game parks under a new Government of National Unity. Eddie Koch reports.

European sends a stinging diplomatic rebuke over Mogopa

?Twelve European governments yesterday delivered a joint démarche – one of the sternest forms of diplomatic protest – to the foreign ministry.

Warlords get police ‘help’, says Cosatu

Startling allegations that police are actively backing Inkatha warlords in the Pietermaritzburg civil war were made at a press conference.