Word: apartheiders
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President Thabo Mbeki told the World Economic Forum in New York that South Africa has "the most comprehensive AIDS program in the world." Unfortunately, says Achmat, a veteran A.N.C. supporter and anti-apartheid activist in his youth, in maternity and pediatric wards the death toll says otherwise...
...Israeli leaders (mostly from the left-wing benches of parliament) to South Africa where, along with a delegation of Palestinians led by Arafat's chief negotiator, Saeeb Erekat, they huddled for three days with the leaders who had negotiated South Africa's near-miraculous peaceful transition away from apartheid...
DIED. MARIKE DE KLERK, 64, ex-wife of F.W. de Klerk, the last President of South Africa before apartheid was abolished, who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela; when a security guard at her apartment complex strangled and stabbed her; in Blaauwberg, South Africa. At the time of her murder, her former husband was in Stockholm celebrating the centennial of the Nobel Prizes...
...N.N.P.'s switch of allegiance as "political opportunism at its most promiscuous." Members of the A.N.C.'s left-wing alliance partners in the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions have also expressed misgivings about working with a party that bears the stigma of apartheid. The leader of the Democratic Party, Tony Leon, says there are many members of the New National Party who would like to stay with the Democratic Alliance. "We're going onward and forward," he says. "It is obvious to everyone now that the N.N.P. is about to disappear into oblivion...
...National Party has been in existence under various names since 1914 and ruled, without interruption, from 1948 to 1994, during which time it put racial segregation - apartheid - into the statute book before being forced, by world pressure and internal black dissent, to remove it. In order to survive, the party has had to make many changes. De Klerk resigned from the post-apartheid government and the party because, he said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose...