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South Africa: Home truths
Let's start with the handshake - his, at least, was something other than welcoming. More like, "I'm in charge here, boy, and you seem to need a bit of pain to get the point." At the other end of the bonecrusher fist was 6ft 7in-worth of mortician from Central Casting. No introduction; merely a sneer: "Had any personal experience of crime and violence since returning to this new South Africa of yours?" I informed him that a friend's Mini I had borrowed had been nicked in Johannesburg a few hours earlier.
I was on the final lap of a quest to discover why a military hit squad had attempted to assassinate me in the dying days of apartheid. In particular, I was trying to dig out of the dossiers kept on me by the agency responsible for the plot - Military Intelligence (MI). After being brushed off by the brass, I applied to the state attorney, Ben Minaar, who, after months of prevarication, gave me permission to "peruse" the files. Which is why I was in his Pretoria office on a hot 1998 summer morning, expecting an enlightening read.
But the big man was not going to make it easy for me. "How do I know you are who you say you are? You say you're Gavin Evans but for all I know you could be Hannes Smit [a 60-something newspaper editor]."
"Are you seriously
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...Who killed Hani?
Just the ultra-right?
"The ANC would be in good health advised take over sever university teacher links take on the Politico Party, favour especially get someone on the blower Mr Hani..."
De Klerk's Pastor of Impartiality, Kobie Coetsee, October 9, 1992.
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Hamlet
Tragedy by William Shakespeare
This article is about the play by William Shakespeare. For its protagonist, see Prince Hamlet. For the type of settlement, see Hamlet (place). For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation).
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is considered among the "most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language", with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". It is widely considered one of the greatest plays of all time.[2] Three different early versions of the play are extant: the First Quarto (Q1, 1603); the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604); and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines and passages missing from the others.
Many works have been pointed to as possible sources for Shakespeare's play, from ancient Greek tragedies to Elizabethan dramas. The editors of the Arden Shakespeare question the idea of "source hunting", poin