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...blacks and whites alike, the most troubling event took place two days before Christmas, as holiday shoppers crowded the gaily decorated arcades of the Sanlam shopping center in Amanzimtoti, 18 miles south of Durban. Outside an ice-cream parlor, a crowd of parents and children had gathered around a festive display featuring Santa Claus when a bomb hidden in a nearby garbage bin exploded. Within seconds, the scene of holiday merriment was transformed into grim mayhem. Five whites, among them a two-year-old child, were killed. In all, 61 people, including several blacks, were injured...
...enclaves that exclude blacks, have been well insulated from such violence. Indeed, of the 850 South Africans killed in the country-wide unrest in 1985, only 15 have been white civilians. While many whites have been concerned about the black unrest and attendant violence, few felt immediately threatened. The Sanlam shopping center bombing has shaken that confidence...
...land mine as they drove along a road near the Zimbabwe border. The A.N.C. admitted that it had planted the device, as well as six others that have killed seven and injured eleven since November. Predictably, the government of State President P.W. Botha promptly blamed the A.N.C. for the Sanlam bombing. But the organization's silence has led some analysts to speculate that the incident may have been the work of a militant A.N.C. offshoot...
Liberal whites also voiced distress at the Sanlam bombing. "There can be only total condemnation," declared Helen Suzman, an opposition member of Parliament and a long-standing antiapartheid activist. The financial daily Business Day predicted that the blast had destroyed chances for peaceful negotiations between the A.N.C. and the government. More-over, the paper said, the prospects for the release of imprisoned A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela "have faded...
...separately, Macozoma, Motsepe, Ramaphosa and Sexwale have been dubbed the Fabulous Four for their growing power and wealth, and between them, they have more than $1 billion worth of interests in some of South Africa's largest companies, from mining heavyweights Harmony Gold and Gold Fields to life insurer Sanlam and Alexander Forbes Financial Services to banking giants ABSA and Standard Bank. The men are also buying playthings. Motsepe owns the Mamelodi Sundowns, one of South Africa's most successful soccer teams. Sexwale, who bought the Oude Kelder winery outside Cape Town in 2002, sponsors the national soccer league...