EDITOR’S NOTE

THIS week’s #Blackmonday campaign left people asking themselves many questions about

“farm murders”, race issues and crime in general.

The campaign inspired our reporter Nkululeko Nene to track all the way to Gluckstadt, near Vryhied, to bring back the not so black-and-white story of the “farmer” whose murder was cited in the news this week. Bokkie Potgieter, his friends and neighbours say, was a “white man in a black skin” (see page 9).

Finally, we are able to tell the full story of the football boss facing allegations of rape (page 11). Last week we had to abide by the law and exercise the double caution with which we always approach such sensitive issues and leave his name out. We spoke to the KZN ANC Women’s League about the matter.

Still on women’s issues, Nike’s launch of an athletic hijab has elicited mixed reaction, including criticisms that it was “nothing but opportunistic”. A professor gives his take about this Muslim woman garment (page 17).

Columnist Imraan Buccus gives us his take on the #Blackmonday issue and considers what’s behind the high levels of violent crime in our country (page 18). Dennis Pather calls for a campaign to unearth the truth behind apartheid era mysteries such as the death of Africa’s first Nobel laureate half a century ago.

In our ANC Countdown series this week we profile the man who led the ruling party’s negotiations team at the dawn of our democracy (page 19). He has the credentials but has also courted controversy.

Would you like us to let you in on one of the best kept secrets among the country’s nature reserves? Well, a graduate of Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela’s legacy conservation school recounts her training at this KZN gem (page 21). I hope this doesn’t cause a stampede to the nearpristine area.