Voices of Boipatong

Newspaper clippings

• Beeld

• Raaisel omhul bloedbad - P.1

  1992-06-19 | Bruce Taylor and Fantie van der Westhuizen

• Raaisel omhul bloedbad - P.2

  1992-06-19 | Bruce Taylor and Fantie van der Westhuizen

• SAP, SAW by Boipatong gedurende die slagting

  1992-08-06 | Van Bruce Taylor

• Boipatong-bande nie opsetlik beskadig , se maatskappy

  1992-08-15

• se verslag oor Boipatong-bande word more verwag

  1992-10-28

• Hy 'wis nie' hy vernietig Boipatong-bewysstukke

  1993-06-19 | Martie Snyman



• Business Day

• Boipatong pair arrested again

  1993-06-19 | Martie Snyman | Mpho Kobue

• Police blame 300 KwaMadala hostel residents for Boipatong killings

  1993-06-19 | Martie Snyman | Mpho Kobue | Tim Cohen

• Erasing of Boipatong tapes 'deliberate'

  1993-06-19 | Martie Snyman | Mpho Kobue | Tim Cohen | Alan Fine

• Two jailed for murder

  1992-05-18 | Own correspondent

• Van Schoor given effectively 20 years

  1992-06-17 | Own Correspondent

• Killing spree

  1992-06-19 | Wilson Zwane

• Police accused of aiding attackers - Scores slain in township killing spree

  1992-06-19 | Wilson Zwane

• Guards 'told of group's involvement in attack'

  1992-06-20

• Ladysmith Rernand

  1992-06-24

• No witnesses in massacre probe

  1992-06-25 | Wilson Zwane

• Long before Boipatong, the seeds had already been sown for THE CRISIS

  1992-06-25 | Edyth Bulbring and Brian Pottinger

• SACC issues ultimatum

  1992-06-25

• Stayaway

  1992-06-26

• Stayaway restricted to Transvaal

  1992-06-26 | Own Correspondent

• Foreign VIP to attend funeral

  1992-06-26 | Wilson Zwane

• Goldstone's team finds arms cache

  1992-06-26

• Prayer service to be held across SA today

  1992-06-29 | Stephane Bothma and Adrain Hadland

• Tour bookings are affected by unrest

  1992-06-29 | Gerald Reilly

• Boipatong

  1992-06-29

• Enough

  1992-06-29

• International assessors will join Goldstone invertigation this week

  1992-06-29 | Chris Bateman

• Police mum on Boipatong probe

  1992-06-30

• Group in protest against massacre

  1992-06-30 | Own Correspondent

• FW urges all to stay claim

  1992-07-01 | Business Day report

• Playing with fire

  1992-07-01

• Police detain 81 in Boipatong probe

  1992-07-01 | Stephane Bothma

• 49 massacres cost 1250 lives - HRC

  1992-07-02 | Political Staff

• 49 Massacres

  1992-07-02 | VWD, Sapa

• Inkatha members 'among Boipatong dead'

  1992-07-03 | Wilson Zwane

• UK detective ends probe of SAP

  1992-07-08 | Tim Cohen

• Police praise Boipatong prob…

  1992-07-10 | Sapa

• Murder indictment

  1992-07-10

• Hostel dwellers in fear of their lives

  1992-07-20 | Sapa-AFP

• No charges put to Boipatong suspects

  1992-07-21 | Stephane Bothma

• Trial is shifted to Pretoria

  1992-07-22 | Marianne Merten

• 'Boipatong report raps police'

  1992-07-23 | Victoria Holdsworth

• Boipatong

  1992-07-23

• Police announce urgent steps to improve investigations

  1992-07-24 | Tim Cohen and Political Staff

• Police

  1992-07-24

• Prayer services for Boipatong victims to be held across SA today

  1992-07-29 | Stephane Bothma and Adrian Hadland

• Massacre probe by police is under fire

  1992-07-30 | Sapa

• White men murdered my brother - witness

  1992-08-07 | Kathryn Strachan

• Police tell inquiry Boipatong tapes erased

  1992-08-12 | Kathryn Strachan

• SAP Casspirs trailed Boipatong killers, policeman tells inquiry

  1992-08-13 | Kathryn Strachan

• Senior hpolice to probe 'execution'

  1992-08-25 | Own Correspondent

• UK help on tapes

  1992-08-28

• Hostel men face massacre charges

  1992-09-01 | Susan Russell

• Hostel seven appear on massacre charges

  1992-09-03 | Susan Russell

• Police 'saw no white attackers'

  1992-09-04 | Susan Russell

• Goldstone to probe Inkatha deaths

  1992-09-07

• Goldstone

  1992-09-07

• Policeman tells

  1992-10-23 | Sapa

• Charges withdrawn in Boipatong t…

  1993-04-14

• Young Boipatong survivor identifies alleged attacker

  1993-05-16 | Stephane Bothma

• Boipatong

  1993-07-03



• Citizen

• Weapons seized as toll rises - p.2

  1992-06-19 | Tony Stirling, Martin McGhee and Sapa

• Weapons seized as toll rises - p.1

  1992-06-19 | Tony Stirling, Martin McGhee and Sapa-Reuter

• Not involved: IFP

  1992-06-19 | Sapa

• Urgent' SAP attention to critical report

  1992-07-24 | Sapa and Fred de Lange

• Investigators slam Boipatong handling

  1992-07-24 | Sapa and Fred de Lange

• Natal massacre: ANC alliance meets police

  1992-08-07 | Sapa

• Const tells court of Swaniesville massacre

  1992-09-03 | Citizen reporter

• Policeman denies false implication of two

  1992-09-04 | Citizen reporter

• SAP feared killings, escorted hostel men

  1992-09-05 | Citizen Reporter

• ANC blames FW

  1992-09-08 | Sapa

• 'Defensive'

  1992-09-08

• Slayings: SAP let men go

  1992-09-08 | Citizen reporter

• FW blames mass action

  1992-09-08 | Sapa

• No heroism during fatal bullet hail

  1992-09-08

• Judge grants bail to 11 of Boipatong accused

  1992-11-17 | Sapa

• Boipatong: Charges against 27 accused are withdrawn

  1993-04-14 | Sapa

• Boipatong accused trial is postponed

  1993-07-30

• Boipatong accused are back in court

  1993-07-31

• Boipatong accused dies, but trial goes ahead

  1993-08-10 | Citizen reporter

• Boipatong: Guilty jailed for their 'abomination'

  1994-06-10 | Ilse de Lange



• City Press

• Police did not react to Boipatong attack warning

  1992-06-21 | Sophia Tema

• Butchers of Boipatong

  1992-06-21 | Sophia Tema

• Prosecution doomed

  1992-07-26 | Desmond Blow

• Four go free as lies doom massacre case

  1992-08-06 | Martin Ntsoelengoe

• Weird slaying of 5

  1992-08-09

• Trail postponed for proof of death

  1992-08-09 | Stan Mhlongo

• White pangamen

  1992-08-09 | Sophie Tema

• Boipatong: 32 plead not guilty to 45 murders

  1993-05-16 | Martin Ntsoelengoe

• Boipatong findings

  1994-04-10 | Martin Ntsoelengoe

• The night hope almost died

  1994-04-10 | Len Kalane



• Mail & Guardian

• No closer to the truth of Boipatong

  December 1 to 7 2000 | Piers Pigou

• Boipatong won't forgive killers

  1998-07-17 | Tangeni Amupadhi

• Boipatong massacre : Still no real answers

  2000-10-06 | Piers Pigou



• Rapport

• Nege lyke bloedspoor

  1992-08-30 | Kobus Kruger



• Saturday Star

• Boipatong: 78 in court on Monday

  1992-07-18 | Joe Louw and Sapa



• Sowetan

• One Casspir to Boipatong

  Oct-92 | Pretoria Bureau

• Boipatong 12 get bail

  Oct-92 | Pretoria Bureau | Sowetan Correspondent

• Boipatong looks back in anger

  1992-06-19 | Mathatha Tsedu and Kenosi Modisane

• Hostel men charged

  1992-07-20 | Abbey Makoe

• Massacre: experts slam SAP

  1992-07-23

• Report leak deplored

  1992-07-23

• Boipatong: SAP 'woeful'

  1992-07-23 | Peter Fabricius

• No tests done after massacre, probe told

  1992-07-30 | Peter Wellman

• Killing outrage

  1992-07-31 | Kenosi Modisane

• Goldstone starts Boipatong

  1992-08-05

• 82 in court over massacre

  1992-08-11

• Police probe under fire

  1992-08-11

• Alex massacre: judge attacks SAP probe

  1992-08-11 | Susan Smuts

• 'Nothing going on in Boipatong'

  1992-08-11 | Philip Zoio

• Massacre night tapes erased

  1992-08-12 | Sapa

• Witness tells of threats

  1992-08-14

• Boipatong massacre inquiry to resume in November

  1992-08-17

• Police 'not in the clear yet,

  1992-08-17

• PAC gives cash to massacre families

  1992-08-26 | Abdul Milazi

• Probe murders, urges IFP

  1992-08-26

• Bid to stop more massacres

  1992-08-27 | Brownwyn Wilkinson

• Murderer of fam… may be white ma…

  1992-08-28

• Massacre witness disappears

  1992-09-03 | Susan Smuts

• Swanieville: allegations a 'blatant lie'

  1992-09-04 | Susan Smuts

• Swanieville: 8 go on trial

  1992-09-05

• My narrow escape

  1992-09-08 | Esther Waugh

• SA deploys troops after 24 die in Bisho

  1992-09-08 | Sowetan correspondent

• Boipatong: bail opposed

  1992-09-22 | Melody McDougall

• Aid for Boipatong families

  1992-11-25

• Boipatong 27 no longer face charges

  1993-04-14 | Mckeed Kotlolo(Pretoria Bureau)

• More Boipatong arrests expected

  1993-04-15 | Esther Vaugh

• Court frees 15 IFP members

  1993-05-11 | Tsale Makam

• Accused given a choice by judge

  1993-05-13 | Mckeed Kotlolo(Pretoria Bureau)

• Witness relives night of horror

  1993-05-13 | Tsale Makam

• Mother describes Boipatong slayings

  1993-05-14 | Mckeed Kotlolo(Pretoria Bureau)

• Drama at Boipatong trial

  1993-05-18

• He stabbed me - Boipatong witness

  1993-05-18 | Tsale Makam

• 3 Boipatong accused arrested

  1993-05-25 | Tsale Makam

• Hostel men burnt looted goods

  1993-05-26 | Tsale Makam

• 'No police took part in Boipatong attack'

  1993-06-10 | Mckeed Kotlolo(Pretoria Bureau)

• Boipatong trial told of women's pleas for help

  1993-06-15 | Mckeed Kotlolo(Pretoria Bureau)

• The agony of Boipatong

  1993-06-17 | Tsale Makam

• Too tired to testify, Boipatong trial told

  1993-06-21 | Mckeed Kotlolo(Pretoria Bureau)

• Hostel dwellers apply for release

  1993-07-16 | Sowetan Reporter

• KwaMadala inmates 'tortured'

  1993-07-17 | Guy Jeppson

• Boipatong murder trialist dies in escape bid

  1993-08-10

• Boipatong witness tells of night of the massacre

  1993-08-12 | Tsale Makama

• Victims feel forgotten

  1996-06-17 | Pamela Dube



• Special Report

• Boipatong no prevention, no cure.

  1992-06-26 | Ivor Powell



• Star

• Boipatong killers are refused bail

  1994-04-05

• What did I do to deserve this?-p.1

  2003-06-17

• What did I do to deserve this?-p.2

  2003-06-17



• Sunday Star

• Massacre to talks, the inside story of the drama into the dark gloom and confrontation of the Eighties

  1992-06-28

• THE CRISIS: From Boipatong to Madrid, from and desperate hours that plunged us back

  1992-06-28 | David Breier, Peta Thornycroft and Peter de Ionno



• Sunday Sun

• Boipatong pair were in vigil massacre trial

  1992-08-23 | Bryan Pearson



• Sunday Times

• Tragic young victims of adults' war

  28-06 | Heather Robertson

• Xhosa' gang murders 21 in night raid on Inkatha

  1992-04-05 | Sinday Times Report

• Rot goes on

  1992-04-26

• Dogged cop who tracked down his colleague

  1992-05-03 | Terry van der Walt

• Propaganda war

  1992-06-20

• The gun battle at Boipatong

  1992-06-21

• Barricades up…and not a policeman in sight

  1992-06-21 | Charis Perkins

• Shots as de Klerk flees

  1992-06-21 | Charles Leonard and Heather Robertson

• FW flees angry mob

  1992-06-21 | Charles Leonard and Heather Robertson

• FW flees angry mob - p.1

  1992-06-21 | Charles Leonard and Heather Robertson

• FW flees angry mob - p.2

  1992-06-21 | Charles Leonard and Heather Robertson

• The massacre

  1992-06-21

• Live frugally and esteem learning above all else

  1992-06-28 | Ken Owen

• Burail for 42

  1992-06-28

• Boipatong killings 'a setback' for NP recruitment drive

  1992-06-28 | Marlan Padayachee

• Boipatong probe faces a tangle of contradictions

  1992-06-28 | Sunday Times reporters

• Man confesses to bloodbath at Boipatong

  1992-06-28 | Sunday Times reporters

• Teenager left to raise 5 orphans

  1992-07-05 | Ezra Mantini

• Turning a deaf ear to Goldstone

  1992-07-05 | Charlene Smith

• The tragedy of Boipatong

  1992-07-19 | Larry Ronge

• Warrior survived

  1992-07-26

• Poor police

  1992-07-26

• Riddle of the tapes and lights of Boipatong

  1992-08-16 | Charlene Smith

• 14 killed in two Natal massacres

  1992-09-06

• Boipatong link to vigil massacre

  1992-09-27 | Sharon Chetty

• Boipatong linked to vigil massacre

  1992-09-27 | Sharon Chetty

• Victim payout

  1992-10-11

• Trial of Boipatong accused gets off to a slow start

  1993-05-16 | Sharon Chetty

• Boipatong: family of convicted want 'truth'

  1994-06-12 | Mpho Kobue



• The Argus

• FW 'shocked' by Boipatong - promises action

  1992-06-19 | Michael Morris



• The Citizen

• Weapons seized as toll rises

  1992-06-19 | Tony Stirling, Martin McGhee and Sapa-Reuter

• Weapons seized as toll rises

  1992-06-19 | Tony Stirling, Martin McGhee and Sapa-Reuter

• Weapons seized as toll rises

  1992-06-19 | Tony Stirling, Martin McGhee and Sapa-Reuter



• The Daily News

• The butchers of Boipatong

  1992-06-19



• The Pretoria News

• Blood on the walls: not for the first time

  1992-06-19



• The Star

• Before the blood dries

  1992-06-19

• SAP in the dock over Boipatong bungles

  1992-07-24 | Peter Fabricius

• Massacre trial judge slams 'interference'

  1994-03-31 | Sapa

• 17 guilty of Boipatong massacre

  1994-03-31



• The Weekly Mail

• THE POLITICAL CRISIS: The central role of the hostels in violence has been apparent for months. But it took a massacre last week to drive the point home - p.4

  June 26 to July 2 1992 | Beathur Baker and Eddie Koch

• THE POLITICAL CRISIS: The central role of the hostels in violence has been apparent for months. But it took a massacre last week to drive the point home - p.5

  June 26 to July 2 1992 | Beathur Baker and Eddie Koch

• Truth the casualty in SA race wars

  1992-08-02 | William Claiborne and Paul Taylor

• Witnesses link SAP, whites to Boipatong

  1992-08-07 | Jacquie Golding

• SAP fires witness - claim

  1992-09-04 | Jacquie Golding

• 'Muti used before Boipatong attack'

  1993-05-21 | Jacquie Golding

• Boipatong men 'told to burn bloodied clothes'

  1993-05-28 | Jacquie Golding

• Twist in Boipatong trial

  1993-06-04 | Jacquie Golding

• Police 'did nothing to stop looting'

  1993-06-11 | Jacquie Golding

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