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CAPE TOWN, S. AFRICA: Nelson Mandela, looking fit and every inch a president, opened the third South African Parliament since the 1994 all-race elections with a healing hour-long speech: "We can neither heal nor build, if on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants, or if, on the other hand, the poor sit back expecting charity," Mandela told Parliament in a televised speech. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports from Cape Town that South Africa has made a remarkably smooth transition from white-only rule. Some cultural problems must be sorted...
JOHANNESBURG: Despite the fact that Louis Farrakhan was visiting South Africa over the weekend, Hawthorne reports that the American Muslim's meeting with Nelson Mandela "came and went with barely a flurry of interest. People in Soweto wouldn't be able to tell you who Farrakhan is." Mandela met with the controversial Farrakhan for an hour, but took pains to explain that it did not signify an acceptance of the American's beliefs...
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...
...postscript, perhaps it would be educational to remind readers that Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were men who exploited the forum of free speech to attack the "core values" of there states. Ben Shacher's vision would have all these men arrested under charges of edition, as men whose opinions for "outside the permitted parameters" Ben-Shachar provides no answer on how a government can safely distinguish between Nelson Mandela and Timothy McVeigh, both of whom called for the collapse of the state. Devin McLachlan...
...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 Tutu, investigates. South African right-wingers have accused Nelson Mandela of using the affair to dole out political retribution, a charge the South African President denies. Deputy President F.W. De Klerk has said if Malan is prosecuted, Modise should lose his immunity and be tried for ordering ANC guerrillas to commit 'deeds of terrorism.' As for Malan, Hawthorne says...