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“Losing” more black leaders shows a greater concern with keeping the party as a base for white interests than growing it to a possible future government. (Paul Botes/M&G)
COUNTRY

South Africa’s liberals are failing to wrap their heads around race

The white liberal establishment, both inside and outside the DA, holds onto its race-blindness by distorting the South African idea of “non-racialism”

  • Christi Van Der
  • Westhuizen 1
6 min read
Figure exploitation: The National Party makes use of FW de Klerk in its electoral campaign in Soweto in 1994 (Georges Merillon/Getty Images)
ANC ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Campaigning by billboard

Political posters persuade the undecided, rally supporters to a cause and get the public to vote

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
7 min read
Plot thickens: Police and forensic investigators at the crime scene where Mark Minnie was found dead on Monday. (Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Lulama Zenzile)
MARK MINNIE

Police breathe new life into ‘cold case of over 30 years’

Police are investigating the allegations of a paedophile ring contained in the book ‘The Lost Boys of Bird Island’

  • Mxolisi Mngadi
3 min read
(Reuters)
AFRIKANERS

Of ciphers and little favours

The Broederbond itself — dedicated to ensuring the supremacy of Afrikaners —was split into verkrampte and verligte tendencies

  • Shaun De Waal
3 min read
The two-week talks also meant to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries already feeling the sting of deadly storms, heatwaves and droughts made worse by climate change. (Reuters)
ALEXANDRA

The battle for restitution in Alex is never-ending

It’s not only the original property owners but also young people who dream about land

  • Lucas Ledwaba
10 min read
Rather than undermine South Africa’s international reputation
ANC

Where in the world is Zuma’s conscience?

Apartheid leader John Vorster quit over the Info Scandal, but our evasive president refuses to go

  • Jo-Mangaliso Mdhlela
7 min read
SA banks worried about costs of economic crime
ANC

Letters to the editor: February 24 to March 2 2017

Readers write in about banks, identity, and the ANC.

  • Letters
5 min read
Shack of shame: Tambo Sealanyane was scarred by the ordeal of witnessing his father – a member of the National Party – being stoned to death on the street outside the family’s home in 1994.
1994 ELECTIONS

Elections 2014: ‘Dad was on the wrong side’

A young man says the peaceful election in his home town of Tumahole near Parys means his father did not die in vain in 1994.

  • Sarah Evans
4 min read
Voters line up during the 1994 general elections. FW de Klerk says the rights and ­freedoms in the Constitution must be used to safeguard it.
ANC

De Klerk: The lasting challenge of April 27 1994

It is also important to stress that April 27 did not constitute the victory of some South Africans over others, as it is often presented now.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read