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While her ex-husband attempts to negotiate a settlement between the rebels and the government in Zaire, WINNIE MANDELA is striking a few deals of her own. South Africa's former First Lady is in money trouble, and having failed to sell an interview to any British or South African news outlets (asking price: almost $800,000), she's cashing in on the cachet of the humble house in Soweto that she shared with Mandela in the 1950s. But now that Soweto is a tourist destination, the garage has become a curio shop where you can pick up a small...
Pillay, appointed by President Nelson Mandela as the first black woman on the South African Supreme Court, spoke about the ICTR, which was created by the United Nations in 1994. The tribunal seeks to prosecute those responsible for the genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994. Between 500,000 and 1 million Tutsis were killed, and currently 80,000 suspected criminals sit in Rwanda's prisons, which can only accommodate 50,000 occupants...
...your article "Were Trade Missions for Sale?" [NATION, Nov. 11], you stated that I suggested that I be added to a mission headed for South Africa in 1993 because I had contributed $2,000 to the election campaigns of President Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela. I have never requested to be included on a Commerce Department trade mission, and I have not made such political contributions. I am president of a not-for-profit relief and development organization operating in various countries throughout the African continent. My agency does not engage in business of the type promoted...
...letter addressed to Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary Jude Kearney, C. Payne Lucas, a development-organization executive, suggests that he should be added to a mission headed for South Africa in 1993 because he contributed $2,000 to the election campaigns of both Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela. In another, Philip Verveer, a politically savvy Washington attorney, recommends a place on a 1994 mission to India for William Ginsberg, CEO of Cellular Communications International, based in New York City. "Ginsberg was an early financial supporter of the Clinton/Gore campaign," Verveer writes...
...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...