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...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...
...Malan claims he has nothing to answer for, and Deputy President F.W. De Klerk, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with President Nelson Mandela in 1993, jumped to the generals' defense. He said if Malan and his colleagues were not granted immunity, then senior government figures like the present Defense Minister, Joe Modise, should lose the amnesty they have been granted for having ordered A.N.C. guerrillas to carry out armed attacks and bombings. Mandela dismissed De Klerk's comments as "a joke"; De Klerk's National Party snapped back that Mandela was a con artist...
...laureate, was named head of the 17-member, multiracial Truth Commission, which will investigate crimes of the apartheid era. The panel will have the power to recommend amnesty or prosecution in each case, but to be eligible for amnesty, individuals will have to come forward and admit their guilt. Malan will have no part of this and will take his chances in court...
...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...
...Magnus Malan, the former defense minister of South Africa, and ten other ex-military leaders were in a Johannesburg courtroom Thursday to answer charges that they trained an Inkatha-Zulu "hit squad" that massacred 13 black ANC sympathizers. "Coming right after the elections, the timing of this trial has angered many whites on the right wing," says Hawthorne. "They see this as victimization of whites, because some blacks who have been involved in political violence have been given anmnesty, while whites who were involved in the same kind of violence are being brought to court. The trial won't split...