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Shaun Johnson: Charm without the smarm

The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim

Secret Koevoet base linked to Boipatong

Goldstone swoops on disused mine hostel …

On the big army day, the churches debate violence

The system started operating in 1979, the year after PW Botha became prime minister.

It’s agreed: Blue Velvet’s artistic

At an unusual Publications Appeal Board review of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet in Pretoria yesterday an uncommon situation arose:

Pretoria shares US platform with ANC

Consul officials, ANC, Inkatha at sanctions conference

Day of the gallows

On Wednesday, Anton Koen and James Henry Cohen, both convicted of common law murder, were taken to the gallows.

Commonwealth chief jets in unexpectedly

Last night’s urgent visit by the Commonwealth’s secretary general underlines the organisation’s role as primary peace-broker in the SA conflict.

​Cheers and fists as Strydom gets death

The atmosphere was electric as hundreds of people waited for the sentence, amid a heavy police presence.

Inside the Wit Wolwe

Details of cell structure and a ‘mandate’ to kill … but police don’t believe him.

Hospital row over shackled patients

Prisoners recovering from hunger strike are being chained to their beds in the Johannesburg Hospital. The move is causing an uproar among doctors.

Maggie to visit Namibia

A surprise visit by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Namibia tomorrow.

Embassy 6 walk out

Abortive sit-in ends on Her Majesty’s chilly front porch.

FW vs PW. From how, the war’s private

The battle between PW and FW is not over, it’’s just gone underground. Crucial factors on PW’s side have been the black holes in his own constitution.

Sinister soccer man

The strange and suspicious history of Winnie’s coach.

Soccer team feud in bloody spiral

As gun-fire kills child, the puzzle is: Who is really behind this club?

Hunger strike victory

Statement comes from prison: ‘We are eating again. A major victory has been won’

PW stuns the Nats

As MPs file into caucus meeting, a letter of resignation arrives.

FW: The man who leaves no footprints

The new leader of the National Party and putative state president, FW de Klerk, is South Africa’s George Bush.

The day Dr Piet phone the ANC.

Dr Piet Koornhof offers sympathy and help after death of ANC chief.

A lesson from Sol: it’s OK if it’s over the Kei

South African politicians and businessmen can be caught committing fraud and bribery and lying publicly and survive.