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...White directors wouldn't have thought of putting the Rodney King footage in the movie, or of the American flag burning to the X, or even of using Nelson Mandela. Richard Attenborough did a movie called Cry Freedom that was supposed to be about Stephen Biko. But that movie is more about Donald Woods and his family trying to get out of South Africa. So if Attenborough had done this film, the main character would have been a sympathetic white reporter and nothing about Malcolm...
...include Rodney King and Nelson Mandela in the film...
...SAKE OF VIOlence" brought by an African National Congress commission of inquiry was not the familiar litany of human- rights abuses aimed at the usual target, the South African government. Instead the report detailed violence and torture within the A.N.C. itself. The inquiry was ordered by A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela to settle allegations by former detainees of atrocities committed against them by the A.N.C.'s security department in its detention camps. Conceding that the abuses had violated the A.N.C.'s own code of conduct, Mandela promised the report would be considered "as a matter of grave urgency...
...MCBRIDE, 29, KILLED THREE WHITE WOMEN with a car bomb outside a Durban pub. Barend Strydom, 27, gunned down seven blacks in downtown Pretoria. Once condemned to death, McBride and Strydom walked free last week when President F.W. de Klerk released 150 prisoners in a deal to entice Nelson Mandela's African National Congress back to the negotiating table. Most of the convicts had been serving time for violent acts in the antiapartheid cause, but Strydom's release was an obvious sop to whites: as leader of the ultra-right White Wolves, he had become a hero for some militant...
Buthelezi's objections raised doubts about whether multiparty talks could resume by the end of the year as De Klerk and Mandela hoped. The peace process has managed, however, to survive despite the Sept. 7 killing of 29 A.N.C. protesters who marched on the "independent" homeland of Ciskei. In findings released last week, Justice Richard Goldstone criticized A.N.C. officials for exposing their followers to danger but reserved his strongest condemnation for Ciskei authorities, saying "their indiscriminate shooting at innocent demonstrators was morally indefensible...