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...first visit to South Africa in 48 years, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the Order of Merit on President Nelson Mandela--thus offering the former pariah nation a further sign of its readmission to the world community. South Africa's white right wing said it would ignore the visit of "Mrs. Elizabeth Windsor...
...Winners] WINNIE MANDELA Judge in her bribe case disallows documents taken from her home...
South African President Nelson Mandela had his secretary carry a letter 100 yards to his wife's office today to informWinnie Mandelathat he was firing her from his Cabinet. Mrs. Mandela, who was deputy minister of arts and culture, had denounced the slow pace of her husband's reforms, had taken an unauthorized foreign trip and has been accused of taking bribes. But she remains president of the Women's League of the African National Congress and has not been ousted from Parliament. TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne says the President had decided to fire his wife a number...
...judge in Johannesburg today threw out search warrants that were used bySouth African police to raid Winnie Mandela's Soweto homethree weeks ago. Police were investigating whether the deputy Cabinet minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela took bribes to secure government contracts for a firm that she wanted to take over. The judge ruled that a local magistrate improperly acted on a police request for the warrants. He ordered police to return documents seized in the raid. But they still have papers seized from the firm. "Police said this makes no difference to the probe that's going...
...Winnie Mandela's government post as Deputy Minister of Culture, Science and Technology may be in jeopardy. Cutting short a trip to West Africa, the controversial wife of South African President Nelson Mandela returned to a police raid on her home and an investigation into her possible involvement in fraud, bribery and corruption. Furiously fighting back, Mrs. Mandela scheduled a court hearing on March 14, challenging the seizure of documents from her home...