Word: apartheiders
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Marshall also brought a sense of social justice to the job of general counsel, having spent years prior as an anti-apartheid activist. We hope that Rudenstine will choose an equally socially concerned general counsel...
SENTENCED. EUGENE DE KOCK, 48, commander of a South African security-police assassination squad who was nicknamed Prime Evil by his colleagues; on 89 charges, including six of murder committed during the apartheid era; to two life terms and 212 years in prison; in Pretoria...
...Merwe's statements before Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked a turning point in the process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better deal...
That perception was reinforced 10 days earlier by the verdict in the trial of Magnus Malan, former Defense Minister and one of apartheid's most feared leaders. Malan was accused, along with 17 other men, of conducting a notorious 1987 hit-squad murder of 13 people, including seven children. Despite widespread belief in their culpability, Malan and his co-defendants were acquitted of all charges by a white Supreme Court judge. The ruling was interpreted as a massive blow to the Truth Commission's power to persuade former henchmen of the regime to cooperate...
...commission's luck changed the very next day when five ex-officers in South Africa's dreaded Security Branch applied for amnesty and offered to reveal details about the death-squad murders of some 40 political activists. With that, the sarcophagus of silence that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha...