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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...
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Albertus Magnus College...
...SOUTH AFRICA, DOUBTS REmain about the degree to which the white minority has truly been rooted out of power. Last week there was more evidence that it has been, as former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and 19 other former military leaders and security officials stood in a Durban courtroom, where they were charged with murder. The indictment did not claim that all the men were present on the night in 1987 when 13 people, including seven children, were shot to death in a Zulu village. But it accuses them of "planning, training, authorizing and funding" the secret squad of gunmen...
...dark chapter in South Africa's past will be dredged Friday when Afrikaner general Magnus Andre de Merindol Malan goes on trial for the 1987 massacre of 13 women and children in the Zulu village of KwaMakutha. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports that conservatives in South Africa are incensed that Malan and 10 other top military figures are being charged with setting up the hit-squad responsible for killings during the apartheid struggle. At the same time, former African National Congress leaders Thabo Mbeki and Joe Modise have been granted temporary immunity while a "Truth Commission," headed by Archbishop Desmond...
Professor Phillip Stambovsky, an English professor at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Conn., has been working on a edition supposedly more faithful to Dickinson's originals than editions currently available...