NEWS
By MICHAEL HILL and MICHAEL HILL,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | October 13, 1995
PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oh Biko, Biko.The haunting words of Peter Gabriel's song "Biko" are not exactly what you expect to hear in this turn-of-the-century building. After all, this is the building housing the South African Police Museum, and the song is about Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist who died in police custody in 1977.But in the room where the song is playing, the museum has a new exhibit, and it is one of the latest and most surprising of the transformations that have come about in this society.
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By The Daily Nation (Nairobi, Kenya) | October 2, 1990
SOUTH AFRICA is looking to the United States to help end its isolation by the rest of the world.The question, however, is whether time is ripe for the United States and the rest of the world to consider lifting the sanctions against Pretoria.We say it is not.President George Bush, who appeared warmer toward de Klerk than he did toward the deputy president of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, when he visited Washington in June, must be reminded that apartheid is still very much in place.
NEWS
June 27, 1991
Despite reports that South African army units have been secretly abetting the township violence that has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 blacks this year, President Bush says he is ready to lift economic sanctions against Pretoria. Bush made the announcement during a recent White House visit by Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, whose Inkatha Freedom Party has been engaged in bloody factional fighting with members of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.Citing the progress South African President F.W. de Klerk has made in dismantling the legal basis for the apartheid system, Bush said the U.S. could be prepared to end its 5-year-old economic boycott of Pretoria as early as this summer.
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By Michael James and Michael James,Sun Staff Writer | April 5, 1994
Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke's 25-year-old stepbrother was believed to have been killed yesterday in a traffic accident in South Africa, where he had been working as a schoolteacher, according to South African authorities.Murray Alexander Schmoke Jr. was reportedly killed between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. EDT after a taxi van in which he was riding went out of control and overturned on a highway between Pretoria and Pietersburg, according to Clint Coleman, press secretary to Mayor Schmoke.That information was received by the mayor's chief of staff about 3 p.m. in a phone call from officials at Pax College in Pietersburg, Mr. Coleman said.
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By New York Times News Service | November 30, 1990
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Leaders representing most of the spectrum of black politics in South Africa met yesterday under the auspices of the Anglican archbishop, Desmond Tutu, to try to promote mutual tolerance and end the factional violence afflicting black South Africans.Those present included Nelson Mandela, the deputy president of the African National Congress. But Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, the head of the Inkatha Freedom Party, refused to come, contending that the leaders of the ANC were not serious about making peace with Inkatha, a predominantly Zulu political movement.
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By Jerelyn Eddings and Jerelyn Eddings,Johannesburg Bureau of The Sun | October 4, 1990
PRETORIA, South Africa -- An early-morning explosion shook the residence of the U.S. ambassador to South Africa yesterday. There were no injuries and only minor damage.An embassy spokesman said Ambassador William Lacy Swing was at his home in the exclusive Waterkloof section of Pretoria when the bomb went off behind his house at 1 a.m. He said that the back gate to the property and a guard house were damaged but that the house itself was unscathed.Police said debris shattered a window in a nearby house.