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South Africa at the Crossroads
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7 / 1993 |
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LET HIM NOT DIE IN VAIN
SOUTH AFRICA--And so the hard-liners of the right rejoice. Chris Hani, the man many white South Africans loved to hate, is dead. He was shot at close range by a white assassin. The man seen as the biggest bogeyman in black politics by many whites has been removed. This senseless tragedy leaves us all poorer.
Sunday Star
April 13, 1993
MURDER MOST FOUL
SOUTH AFRICA--It is an unspeakable horror among horrors. Perhaps more so, since Mr. Hani is a leader whose death inflames passions at a time when we and others have pleaded for an end to the violence; a leader who had begun to play a moderate role in a country riven by fear and anger. . . . We hope and pray for an end to all the violence. We hope and pray that Chris Hani's death will put new vigor in the thrust for a new South Africa. And we hope and pray that calm, dignity, and restraint will be the only response to this murder most foul.
Citizen
April 13, 1993
A MOMENT OF TRUTH
SOUTH AFRICA--South Africa is getting perilously close to the tipping point where skills and
what capital remains could depart forever. And once that happened there could be no recovery. Political negotiations would be about who should inherit the wasteland. The country holds its breath. Today--and the rest of the period of mourning--could be a turning point toward political sanity or it could be the start of the slide. It is a moment of truth.
Daily News
April 15, 1993
ASSASSINATION DAMAGES A FRAGILE TRUCE
UNITED STATES--The weekend slaying of antiapartheid leader Chris Hani has left even hardened South Africans wondering how much more violence and
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