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...Cabinet officer from South Africa's ruling National Party been forced to resign in disgrace. Last week the spreading scandal over misuse of a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund within the now disbanded Department of Information claimed its first major victim: Cornelius P. ("Connie") Mulder, 53, powerful Minister of Plural Relations and Nationalist boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder: "I have no remorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Connie Quits | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...antigovernment Rand Daily Mail has dubbed the affair South Africa's "Watergate." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the judge's disclosures have shaken the six-week-old regime of Prune Minister Pieter W. Botha and could wreck the career of Minister of Plural Relations Cornelius P. Mulder, 53, who had been considered a leading candidate to become Prime Minister some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: A Watergate for Pretoria | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Keith Richards (since when is his name plural?) and Sid Vicious are two folks you'd be reading a lot about in The New York Times lately, if there were a New York Times. There isn't, but their names are still news. This has not been a good week for 21-year-old Sid of the Sex Pistols. His cat is dead, his girlfriend is dead, he tried to kill himself, and he is suspected of being guilty on all three counts. I have the feeling his name won't help his cause, either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not the Rock Column | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

That left the contest between P.W. and Cornelius Petrus ("Connie") Mulder, 53, another ideological conservative, a party power in the Transvaal province, and Minister of Plural Relations overseeing government affairs with nonwhites. Despite a still simmering scandal involving financial irregularities in the Information Department that was formerly under his ministry, Mulder scored 72 votes on the first ballot, against 78 for P.W. Botha. By prior agreement, Pik Botha gave the Defense Minister the winning majority by throwing his votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Not-So-Favorite Choice | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...contenders to replace Vorster include Pieter W. Botha, the hard-line defense minister; Connie Mulder, the conservative minister of plural relations (racial affairs); Labor Minister Fanie Botha and Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha. None of the three Bothas are related...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Ill Vorster Leaves Office, Rejects U.N.-Namibia Efforts | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

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