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Issue 13 - First Quarter 1999
African renaissance depends on rule of law and human rights: Mbeki should condemn Mugabe's attack on the free press, denounce the use of torture and call for respect for the rule of law. How many people will be able to vote?: The prospects of a smoothly-run election will not be good if large numbers of potential voters find that they are excluded.
African renaissance depends on rule of law and human rights
Mbeki should condemn Mugabe's attack on the free press, denounce the use of torture and call for respect for the rule of law.
Challenging Mugabe
As public anger rises in Zimbabwe, what are the chances of peaceful political change?
Midlands rivals get their gloves out
The air is thick with accusations of death threats and gun running.
How many people will be able to vote?
The prospects of a smoothly-run election will not be good if large numbers of potential voters find that they are excluded.
Interview: Chief Buthelezi
The IFP leader talks about rapprochement with the ANC, his treatment by the TRC and election preparations.
Report from UWC: Radical rhetoric gives way to bitter reality
UWC, famous for revolutionary rhetoric, starts the new year burdened by debts, discontented students and demoralised staff.
Unfair, untrue and unpatriotic
Raymond Louw reminds us of the National Party's lengthy investigation of the media.
Probing the media
The HRC said it would base its interpretation of racism on "internationally accepted definitions" adopted by the UN in 1965.
Voting and the fear factor
Our latest opinion poll found that many black South Africans are afraid to vote as they wish.
