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The Mail & Guardian celebrated a milestone in the crazy year that was, not that 1985 was any less so

Thank you for buying our newspaper. Siyabonga, re a leboga, enkosi, dankie. You are why our newsroom can keep doing good journalism

In the coming weeks we will take you back, year by year, through our history and the history of this country and continent. So much has changed since 1985. So much more needs to change.

Sipho Kings has been appointed the acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian

The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim

Ramaphosa and his role model Nelson Mandela became presidents of South Africa in very trying times

Given attacks against media and important questions being raised about our work, we need to be open about why we do what we do

The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi. This week: Life in the camps