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...which can only lessen the remaining hostages' hopes of getting out unscathed. Zulkurnain Hashim, a 30-year-old wildlife ranger kidnapped last year from Sipadan Island, comments: "If there is a military attack, the Abu Sayyaf will not think twice to kill them." South African Monique Strydom wrote in her diary (recently published in Shooting the Moon) on June 19, 2000, day 58 of her abduction: "I hate them. I hate them a thousand times. I hate them for what they are doing to us ... to our families ... our parents ... for everything they have taken away from us. I hate...
ROBERT MCBRIDE, 29, KILLED THREE WHITE WOMEN with a car bomb outside a Durban pub. Barend Strydom, 27, gunned down seven blacks in downtown Pretoria. Once condemned to death, McBride and Strydom walked free last week when President F.W. de Klerk released 150 prisoners in a deal to entice Nelson Mandela's African National Congress back to the negotiating table. Most of the convicts had been serving time for violent acts in the antiapartheid cause, but Strydom's release was an obvious sop to whites: as leader of the ultra-right White Wolves, he had become a hero for some...
...fourth-generation Afrikaner nationalist. A descendant of the Calvinistic Voortrekkers, who valued independence more than enlightenment, he was raised in the northern Transvaal, the heart of the most conservative area of South Africa. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were National Party politicians, and his uncle J.G. Strydom was a Prime Minister. He was twelve years old in 1948, when his father became a Member of Parliament and the National Party rose to power on the platform of Grand Apartheid. While he modeled himself on his stern and unyielding father, his brother Willem, 61, who became a journalist...
...Botha government's slow reforms face a far more menacing threat from the ultra-right. Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government...
...Parliament, Strydom's Justice Minister Charles Swart declared that the opposition planned to use this "unfortunate instance of a public servant" against the Nationalists in the campaign for the April general elections. On hearing this, the Nationalists glowered at their opponents and burst into shouts of "Shame...