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...distinctive as the ones fostered by IBM or Apple Computer. Indeed, Apple Co-Founder Steven Jobs last month cited Federal's Smith as one of his business heroes. Smith runs Federal with a military zeal that rubs off on his staff. He sometimes rewards outstanding work with Bravo Zulu stickers, which refer to the Navy signal flags meaning "job well done." Says Robert Sigafoos, author of the corporate profile Absolutely, Positively Overnight: "They have a 'kill or be killed' mentality, which permeates the ranks from top to bottom...
...first steps in a long retreat. Says Helen Suzman, an opposition M.P. and one of the government's most articulate opponents: "The new constitution is based on apartheid. It leaves out the best feature (of a democratic system), namely universal franchise under the rule of law." Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, a leading black moderate, has declared that those who participated in the recent elections were committing a "mammoth betrayal" of the black population. On the other hand, Afrikaner diehards agreed with Eugene Terreblanche, head of an extreme-right group, who said that "South Africa, the land of promise, will...
Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock (Island). The year's funniest and most slaphappy dance record mixes Zulu chants, New York City jump-rope songs and hip-hop street culture into an anthropological jamboree...
...protest at Sharpeville near Johannesburg in 1960, police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding more than 100. The A.N.C. and the rival Pan Africanist Congress (P.A.C.), which organized the protest, were banned and went underground. The A.N.C.'s militant wing, known as Umkhonto We Sizwe (Zulu for Spear of the Nation) began to undertake increasingly bold acts of sabotage...
...letter days on the current Namibian calendar are of South African origin, and Mudge had proposed keeping only dates of purely local significance. Among the holidays to be dropped was the Dec. 16 Day of the Vow, a commemoration of an 1838 victory by white Afrikaners over the Zulu nation in the Battle of Blood River. Members of Namibia's white minority (75,600 out of a total population of more than 1 million) complained, and South Africa vetoed the legislation. As Mudge retold it, that was only the latest in a long series of occasions on which South...