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Bernice Buresh, Dayton Duncan, Godfrey Hodgson and Phillip van Niekerk will conduct research at the center, and at least two will teach short courses in their fields of expertise...
...Niekerk, a freelance journalist who served as the South African correspondent for The Boston Globe, will study how the U.S. government has changed its foreign policy in response to press censorship by the South African government...
...South Africa's highest officials, who fear that he might die in jail and set off an explosion of violent protest in the country's black townships. Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee, who oversees the prison system, made a point of visiting Mandela at Tygerberg. Minister of Health Willem van Niekerk sent regular bulletins from the doctors to State President P.W. Botha. In reply to a worried letter from the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Botha assured him, "We are even more concerned and do wish Mr. Mandela a speedy recovery." Botha added that...
...fervor and economic distress. By the 19th century their descendants have become as rooted, as various and as melodramatic as the land. Villet brings them all onstage: the Falstaffian "Oom Paul" Kruger, grandfather to 120, opponent of natives on one hand and Victorian imperialists on the other; Schalk van Niekerk, owner of a "blinklippie," a stone that turns out to be the 83-carat Star of Africa diamond; the Struben brothers, who strike one of the world's richest gold fields on their farm; plus an indelible supporting cast of victims and survivors. The Afrikaners, caroming between wealth...