MTHEMBU, Ben

Ethel Ntuli wants to sell her house but it has been occupied by another family. However, Florence Simamane says it was given to her while she’s waiting for a stand in KwaMakhutha that had been promised to her. She says she will gladly return the house if asked to do so. // I’m feeling very bad ...

In 1993 more than 1500 people were killed in the orgies of violence that engulfed the East Rand townships near Johannesburg. Most of the violence was rooted in the political conflict between the supporters of the ANC, who were primarily township residents, and Inkatha hostel dwellers. Bloody ...

I think we were eight or nine. We were handcuffed the following morning, forced to lie on the stomach in the Land Rover and we could see we were going to a place where if they give you bread, you’ll think its cake. That’s Quatro; quatro is a number in Portuguese. We called it Quatro because we ...

Shortly afterward police again set up a roadblock on this road and this vehicle was also stopped. The driver of the vehicle opened fire with a Russian manufactured pistol. Police returned the fire and the driver and passengers died in a hail of bullets. // According to the official records they ...

A very good evening. Nine African National Congress terrorists have been shot dead in separate clashes with the South African Police. Minister of Law and Order, mister Adriaan Vlok, said the terrorists had been instructed by the ANC hierarchy to perpetrate large scale acts of terror in South Africa ...