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Journalist and writer Gavin Evans

Gavin Evans on fathers, faith and fearless reporting in South Africa

Memoir is a gripping account of journalistic bravery, father-son reckonings and resilience

(Oleksandr Rupeta/ NurPhoto)

‘Skin Deep’ peels race science

This book is an important fightback against the re-emergence of racist genetic determinism

From our apelike Australopithecus ancestors to modern Homo sapiens

Black Brain, White Brain: The new wave of racist science

The last decade has seen a revival of a very old and long-discredited idea: that intelligence is influenced by racial origin.

The annual drug death statistics released in July by the Scottish records office show that multiple substance abuse is to blame in the vast majority of victims’ cases.(AFP)

Fear and Lothian in Westminster

Big promises were made to keep Scotland in the union, now it’s time for backpedalling.

Liberation struggle icon with husband Joe Slovo

Slovo, First biography – Bedfellows of a different feather

Alan Wieder’s biography on Joe Slovo and Ruth First focuses on the couple’s relationship, their different personalities and opposing views.

Ronnie Kasrils gives his views on Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Thambo Mbeki. (Gallo)

Bonds of tribal loyalty loosen

Ronnie Kasrils names his comrades in the fourth edition of his book about the struggle. Other than that, not much is new.

Reliving apartheid’s dying days

Reliving apartheid’s dying days

Donald McRae’s ability as a story­teller turns the everyday into the exceptional.

Camp and cowardice

The British National Party (BNP), the premier neo-fascist organisation in the United Kingdom, is reeling from worse-than-expected results in local elections last week — not least…

Why I joined the party (and why I don’t hang my head in shame)

I joined quite late in the day: December 1986. For Martin Amis — whose new memoir on Stalinism, Koba the Dread, has been making waves in Britain — this sentence should be…

Two faces of Mokaba

Selective amnesia is a useful tool for political survival — not least when it comes to remembering the dead. So it is that African National Congress leaders have been falling…

A winning solution

The African National Congress has deftly turned certain defeat into a minor triumph with its right turn on a renewed sports boycott.

Tensions rise after guerrillas mortar radar post

The African National Congress mortar attack on a South African Defence Force radar installation in the Western Transvaal.

Was Webster a victim of the hunger strike success?

The hit squad that killed David Webster carried out their attack with ruthless efficiency. Many believe the police are responsible for his death.

The hunger strike has ended

The nine-week-old detainees hunger strike has ended.

Teachers go on full alert for May Day

White school principals have been instructed to ensure that teachers patrol their schools in pairs on "sensitive" days in the calender.

Front-page apology ends news boycott

The 10-week boycott of the <i>Daily Dispatch</i> has ended after a front-page apology by the newspaper’s management.