Word: zulu
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...Malan and 19 other former military leaders and security officials stood in a Durban courtroom, where they were charged with murder. The indictment did not claim that all the men were present on the night in 1987 when 13 people, including seven children, were shot to death in a Zulu village. But it accuses them of "planning, training, authorizing and funding" the secret squad of gunmen who allegedly committed those and other crimes...
...dark chapter in South Africa's past will be dredged Friday when Afrikaner general Magnus Andre de Merindol Malan goes on trial for the 1987 massacre of 13 women and children in the Zulu village of KwaMakutha. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports that conservatives in South Africa are incensed that Malan and 10 other top military figures are being charged with setting up the hit-squad responsible for killings during the apartheid struggle. At the same time, former African National Congress leaders Thabo Mbeki and Joe Modise have been granted temporary immunity while a "Truth Commission," headed by Archbishop Desmond...
Magnus Malan, the former defense minister of South Africa, and ten other ex-military leaders were in a Johannesburg courtroom Thursday to answer charges that they trained an Inkatha-Zulu "hit squad" that massacred 13 black ANC sympathizers. "Coming right after the elections, the timing of this trial has angered many whites on the right wing," says Hawthorne. "They see this as victimization of whites, because some blacks who have been involved in political violence have been given anmnesty, while whites who were involved in the same kind of violence are being brought to court. The trial won't split...
...polling, hundreds were dying in clashes between Mandela's African National Congress and its Zulu rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party. On election eve, bombs set by white extremists shook Johannesburg. Civil war seemed all too possible. Yet one year later, blacks and whites feel released from a 350-year-old burden. "I am excited, relieved," says Phambili Gama, a black engineer in Johannesburg. "Psychologically we feel liberated, even if many economic changes are still to be realized." Beverley Dalton, a white Cape Town public relations executive, puts it more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone...
More than 70 students yesterday observed the first undergraduate Kwanzaa, an African-American celebration of ethnic unity, with singing, speeches, food, and a talk by T.C., a spokesperson for the Zulu Nation...