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Chief Africa National Congress (ANC) Representative to the United Nations Mfanafuthi Makatini assailed a pending constitutional reform up for consideration November 2, before a crowded audience yesterday at the Center for International Affairs...
Makatini is the ANC director of international affairs and represents the organization at the U.N., where it has observer status...
South African courts have condemned to death eleven ANC members since the congress formed its military wing in 1961. Last week's hangings were the first since 1979, however, when ANC Member Solomon Mahlangu was executed for his role in a Johannesburg gunfight in which two whites were killed. The executions emphasize South Africa's hard antiterrorism line in the aftermath of an ANC bomb attack on air force headquarters in Pretoria last month. The blast killed 19 people and injured...
...government last week commuted the death sentences of three other ANC guerrillas on the ground that their attacks had caused no fatalities. But that show of moderation was all but eclipsed by the hangings, which were a grim reminder to South Africa's 21 million blacks of the glaring inequities in the country's justice: of the 100 people executed in South Africa last year, only one was white...
Indeed, far from deterring ANC activities, the hangings are likely to bring increased violence. This week marks the seventh anniversary of the riots that began in Soweto in June 1976 over a government regulation requiring the use of the Afrikaans language in the schools. Over a period of 16 months, 700 people died. Amid the heightened racial tensions accompanying that anniversary, many South African blacks will be mindful of the message sent by the mother of Jerry Mosololi on the eve of his death: "Go well, my son. You must know the struggle will not end even after your death...