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After getting the spiel from the various boards (and a slide show from the business board that looked like something George Lucas had a hand in), I talked with the sports editors at the time, John Trainer and Tarek Farouki.
Supermarket shelves emptied last week as South Africans stocked up, expecting the worst. When Lucas Mangope was ousted from Bophuthatswana last month widespread looting occurred, prompting a Pan Africanist Congress representative to make the sage remark: "We are merely taking back from whites what they took from us."
Once apprehended, killers sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to retain their status. Donald Leroy Evans, a Mississippi murderer who is facing trial for strangling a prostitute in Florida, claims a toll of more than 70 victims. But few believe he's killed nearly that number. In fact, Evans wrote to...
Lucas himself spun a wildly inflated tale of murder for police. He once claimed to have killed some 600 people in 20 states but has since recanted, claiming he had been trying to commit "legal suicide" and to get back at police. Lucas, convicted in the death of 12 and...
The three would-be warriors had been part of a doomed attempt to defend a remnant of apartheid even as South Africa transforms itself into a multiracial state. One of 10 remote domains created and recognized only by Pretoria's old leadership, Bophuthatswana -- nicknamed "Bop" -- symbolizes apartheid's failed ambition...