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...then it was just after noon, the deadline set by the police for the completion of the funeral. Lieut. Colonel Gert Nel, the police commandant, warned the crowd over a loudspeaker, "You are acting against the law. You must disperse. When the convoy starts moving you must all be in vehicles. No processions and no bicycles should be used." But there were no buses to take the mourners to the cemetery. Tutu pleaded with the colonel for buses. Otherwise, he warned, the crowd might turn ugly and there would be bloodshed. The colonel said he could not promise enough transportation...
Later Tutu was able to smile at his confrontation with Colonel Nel. "He saluted me," the bishop chuckled. "Twice." --By William Stewart/Daveyton
...Africa's system of apartheid. The new rules are toughest on broadcast journalists. Television and photographic crews are now required to leave the scene if violence breaks out in any of the 38 districts where the government has declared a "state of emergency." Says Deputy Minister of Information Louis Nel: "The presence of television and camera crews has proved to be a catalyst for further violence...
...given a comfortable chair and a fresh cup of tea, and wondered if this was how a returning Soviet dissident would feel on revisiting Lubyanka prison. As I talked with Colonel Nel, it seemed to me that the biggest change in Security Police thinking was the death of the old obsession that international communism was all powerful and that opponents of apartheid were putative communists if not actual paid agents of the Kremlin. The young colonel agreed. The whole approach was more sophisticated these days, he said, and the country faced a different set of perceived challenges embodied...
...asked if I could have my old file as a souvenir, and Colonel Nel burst out laughing: "We don't even have it anymore!" Irrationally, I felt slightly peeved at being regarded as harmless so soon, but on balance was more than happy about it. As he walked me out to my car, he said, "Please drop in anytime. You're most welcome. Good luck...