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...steel grille clanked open with awful familiarity, and moments later, Colonel Nel, a dark-haired young man, smiling amiably, held out his hand. He looked too young to be a colonel, and I remembered the saying that we are getting old when policemen and doctors start looking like teenagers...
...election on May 6 was the immediate catalyst for change at Stellenbosch. It precipitated the rebellion of the professors, who demanded that real reform take place. This challenge shocked students into attention. "Politics has passed rugby as the main interest on campus since the election was announced," confirms Philip Nel, director of the Institute of Soviet Studies...
Former South African Deputy Information Minister Louis Nel may have summed up the government's attitude when he told reporters last year that "we would like to see all the foreign journalists out of South Africa." What will prove harder to exorcise is the tension and trouble witnessed and reported by those journalists...
After that session, Muller flew on to South Africa to see at first hand the crisis that has intensified pressure in the West to impose broad sanctions -- the subject of this week's cover stories. He had a long meeting with Louis Nel, South Africa's Deputy Minister of Information, about the government's sweeping press restrictions. The month-old rules have complicated the work of Johannesburg Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan and Reporter Peter Hawthorne, but Muller left determined "that TIME continue to be able to provide its readers with honest, fair and accurate reporting from South Africa...
...been in prison for 24 years. In the meantime, a fourth foreign journalist, West German TV Correspondent Heinrich Buettgen, was ordered to leave the country. When the local Foreign Correspondents Association protested the government's "sinister" expulsions policy, it received an angry retort from the Deputy Information Minister, Louis Nel. The real problem, said the peppery Nel, was that "most foreign journalists have consistently misrepresented South Africa abroad by turning a blind eye to constructive developments...