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...speech in the House of Assembly in October that got a standing ovation from A.N.C. legislators, N.N.P. leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk waxed lyrical about being part of "the building team" of a South African renaissance. In reply, President Thabo Mbeki gushed that Van Schalkwyk had shown inspiring "commitment to a common destiny." A.N.C. chairman Mosiuoa Lekota - whose guerrilla nickname when he was fighting the apartheid regime was "Terror" - said the Afrikaans and black communities "shared similar loyalties" and that committees had been set up to "explore cooperation" between the A.N.C. and N.N.P. at all levels of government...
...N.N.P.'s move is a bizarre political about-face that is being treated with a lot of skepticism in opposition circles. When support for the nationalists fell in the 1999 general election, Van Schalkwyk called for minority parties to create a united front against the A.N.C. Now, in order to make its overtures to the A.N.C., Van Schalkwyk's party had to divorce itself from just such a united front: the Democratic Alliance, whose leading member is the liberal Democratic Party, which emerged as the largest opposition in the 1999 election. The N.N.P. made the break in October...
Matter of Perjury? After Strachan's story appeared, Gandar ran a second article on prison tortures, witnessed by two warders and two ex-prisoners. Since then both prisoners have been rearrested, and one of the warders put under house arrest. The other, Gysbert Van Schalkwyk, 22, was given a three-year jail sentence fortnight ago, after pleading guilty to perjury, and explaining, in a statement read to the court by the state prosecutor, that he had lied when he said he had seen electric torture applied 15 to 20 times...
Several ex-Harvard ruggers now play for Boston, which promises an unusually spirited match. John van Schalkwyk, captain of Harvard's ruggers for two years, plays lock in the Boston scrum, much to the amusement of his former team mates since he did not play that position at Harvard...
When Harvard made this trip four years ago, they emerged with a record of one win and two losses, and team captain Jon von Schalkwyk hopes for little more than that this year. As usual, the club must train backs who have never played rugby before, and this year the spring trip will be the first competition for at least three backs...