Word: mbeki
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...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 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...
...credit, the A.N.C. is cautious about adding to the nation's debt burden. Thabo Mbeki, who will probably be First Deputy President and heir apparent to Mandela, said in an interview with TIME last week that the incoming government has two immediate goals. First, it intends to write a budget that will reassure the international financial community that the A.N.C. is not going to borrow heavily. Second, it hopes to round up early commitments of aid money from friendly governments. "It will be very good if we can generate a billion dollars from around the world," Mbeki said, "that...
...stony faced. "It is clear," he said sharply, "that criminality is deep seated even amongst members of the A.N.C." If he found out who was carrying the arms, he said, he would suspend ! them from membership "because one of our commitments is to ensure gun control." His close colleague Mbeki also says violence must be curbed. One reason is to safeguard "the first impression this new South Africa makes, particularly on the investor community inside and outside the country...
Mandela intends to purge the officers and covert units inside the white-led national police force who have directed assassinations against A.N.C. members and supporters and have supplied Inkatha fighters with weapons. "You've got to find the criminals," Mbeki says. "The threat to democracy does not end with the effort to disrupt the elections. Some of them will take up guns and place bombs." At least one police officer and one reservist were among the 33 whites arrested last week as suspects in terrorist bombings...
...also wants a constitutional provision for a "market-oriented economic system." The A.N.C. opposes the provision but denies it is wedded to a plan for blanket nationalization of South Africa's biggest corporations. "There is nothing in the thinking of the A.N.C. that says we must nationalize," says Thabo Mbeki, one of the group's chief negotiators...