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...policy is to publish names of offenders only if they were found guilty after an appeal. The International Olympic Committee and International Association of Athletic Federations want to follow up the allegations and have threatened sanctions on USATF if they don't come clean. GOLF A Late-Blooming Golden Goosen Until a year ago, many people might have imagined that the name Retief Goosen was a flower, or maybe a poultry dish. But the 2001 U.S. Open at Southern Hills put the South African golfer's name at the top of the leader board, and it has resolutely stayed there...
...asked after all my old enemies. Colonel Goosen? Dead. Colonel Van der Merwe? Retired. Captain Hansen? Transferred. Captain Schoeman? Somewhere up- country. I already knew that Lieut. Jan Marais, who had once mailed an acid-tainted T shirt to my five-year-old daughter Mary, had been found drowned in his own swimming pool...
...days, and there were emotional pleas for mercy. But after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered Goosen to shoot...
...Villiers' lawyer said his client was of "limited intelligence" and was drunk at the time of the shooting, while Goosen claimed he was a victim of "posttraumatic stress disorder" because of his exposure to violence in black townships. If the sentence survives the appeals process, the two will become the first white policemen ever executed for killing blacks during antiriot operations in the townships...
Kentridge: You certainly succeeded, Colonel Goosen; he never got out of your hands...