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[By Norman Patterton and Erna van Wyk] Pretoria Mar 5 SAPA -- The Afrikaner Volksfront's [AVF, Afrikaner National Front] transitional representative assembly decided in Pretoria on Saturday [5 March] that the AVF would not participate in the April election, the AVF's transitional President Ferdi Hartzenberg said. He w... | [
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Hopes that the Afrikaner Volksfront [Afrikaner National Front] would take part in the country's first multiracial elections have been dashed. Despite General Constand Viljoen's last-minute registration of the Freedom Front, the Volksfront today rejected participation in the election. Johan Claasen was at today's Volks ... | [
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[Report by Erna van Wyk and Norman Patterton] Pretoria March 5 SAPA -- Nothing would change the Afrikaner Volksfront's [AVF, Afrikaner National Front] decision to boycott the elections unless there was finality on the volkstaat [homeland] issue, AVF leader Gen Constand Viljoen said on Saturday. Addressing a news confe... | [
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[Report by Edyth Bulbring and Dirk van Eeden] Rampant Afrikaner Volksfront [National Front -- AVF] leaders yesterday swept aside an attempt by former SADF [South African Defence Force] chief Constand Viljoen and his moderate generals to register a right-wing party for the April elections. After a bitter nine-hour cris... | [
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[Report by Pit Muller and Z.B. du Toit] General Constand Viljoen's position as a leading figure in right-wing politics is under pressure. His dramatic eleventh hour registration of a new party for the election was rejected overwhelmingly yesterday in a secret vote by the decision-making structures of the National Fron... | [
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[Report by Patrick Bulger] Johannesburg March 6 SAPA -- Afrikaner Volksfront [National Front, AVF] members had not entirely surrendered their efforts to persuade hardliners to take part in the April elections, AVF co-chairman Tienie Groenewald said on Sunday [6 March]. "There will be more efforts to convince people in... | [
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This morning's CITIZEN newspaper reports a plot to assassinate Afrikaner Volksfront [National Front] leader Constand Viljoen if he continues his efforts to take the front into the election. The plot allegedly has its origin in militant groups within the Volksfront who are violently opposed to the election. The shock re... | [
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[Report by N Patterton] Pretoria March 7 SAPA--Neither the police nor Afrikaner Volksfront [National Front -- AVF] spokesman Stephen Maninger could confirm reports on Monday [7 March] of a plot to assassinate AVF Chairman Gen Constand Viljoen. The threat reportedly emanates from the right-wing's militant factions whic... | [
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The president of Bophuthatswana, Mr. Lucas Mangope, says his party will not register for the elections until international mediation has been called in to help resolve the problems surrounding the constitution. The Bophuthatswanan cabinet will meet on Monday to make a final decision on the issue. The cabinet meeting wi... | [
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Pretoria March 5 SAPA -- If Bophuthatswana wished to register for the election, the government would be prepared to negotiate with the Independent Electoral Commission [IEC] and Transitional Executive Council to make the necessary arrangements for the postponement of registration. Constitutional Development Minister Ro... | [
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[Report by Enrico Kemp] Pietersburg March 6 SAPA -- African National Congress [ANC] President Nelson Mandela has proposed extending the registration date for the April elections in order to include parties still outside the process. Addressing about 20,000 people at a rally to commemorate International Women's Day at ... | [
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[Report by P Bulger] Johannesburg March 7 SAPA -- Bophuthatswana's cabinet, faced with the one of the biggest decisions in its 16-year-history, began meeting on Monday [7 March] morning to decide whether to register for the April elections, a source at President Lucas Mangope's Office said. The meeting is against a ba... | [
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[By Patrick Bulger] Mmabatho March 7 SAPA -- The Bophuthatswana cabinet on Monday [7 March] morning decided against participating in the April elections, a Bophuthatswana government spokesman said. "The Bophuthatswana cabinet decided it was opposed to registering for the South African elections in April. The cabinet a... | [
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[Report by N Lewis] Johannesburg March 5 SAPA -- This is the order of political parties on the April 26-28 election ballot paper for the national list following draw by the Independent Electoral Commission [IEC] on Saturday morning: 1. Pan Africanist Congress 2. Sports Organisation for Collective Contributions and Equ... | [
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[Excerpt] Johannesburg March 5 SAPA -- The Pan Africanist Congress [PAC] heads the list of political parties on the April 26-28 election ballot paper. This emerged during a draw to determine the order of political parties on the ballot paper which was broadcast live on South African television on Saturday [5 March] mor... | [
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[By Ben MacLennan] Umtata March 5 SAPA -- The United Nations should be asked to mediate in South Africa's constitutional crisis African National Congress [ANC] leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday. Speaking to about 12,000 people at an ANC rally in Umtata he also welcomed the Inkatha Freedom Party and Afrikaner Volk... | [
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Durban March 6 SAPA -- At least 11 people were killed in an attack on the Bhambayi shack settlement in Inanda near Durban early on Sunday [6 March] morning. SA Police spokesman Lt-Col M de Beer said in a statement 20 shacks were burnt down and two vehicles set alight by an unknown group of men who attacked the area inh... | [
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[By Greg Arde] [Excerpts] Durban March 6 SAPA -- Groups of killers swept through an African National Congress [ANC] stronghold in the war-torn Bhambayi shack settlement north of Durban late on Saturday [5 March] night, leaving a trail of blood and confusion. There were conflicting reports as to the number of people kil... | [
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Durban March 6 SAPA -- African National Congress [ANC] Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday [6 March] called for the disbanding of the SA Police's Internal Stability Division [ISD]. Reacting to the killing of 11 people in Bhambayi north of Durban on Saturday evening, Mr Ramaphosa claimed the ISD was responsible ... | [
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[Report by T. Levy] Johannesburg March 6 SAPA -- The latest killings in Bhambayi, north of Durban, were a grim warning that the intolerance of African National Congress [ANC] and Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] supporters would deprtve people of freely exercising their democratic right of choice during the elections, Law ... | [
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[Report by C Molusi] Johannesburg March 7 SAPA -- ANC [African National Congress] Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa's claim that the Internal Stability Division [ISD] was responsible for the death of thousands of people was a "blatant lie", Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel said on Monday [7 March]. He was reacti... | [
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[Editorial Report] SUNDAY TIMES "Crumbling of the Freedom Alliance" -- The Johannesburg SUNDAY TIMES in English on 6 March in a page-22 editorial states that "the crumbling of the Freedom Alliance on Friday has demonstrated the relentless power of the underlying political forces that are reshaping this country: neither... | [
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[Editorial Report] THE CITIZEN Call for International Mediation Welcome -- Johannesburg THE CITIZEN in English on 4 March in its page-6 editorial welcomes Mangosuthu Buthelezi's call for international mediation to resolve the constitutional impasse. "To our mind, the government should accept mediation, and the ANC [Afr... | [
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There was no plenary meeting at the Lusaka peace talks yesterday, but important steps were nevertheless taken to restore peace in this country. The Voice of Resistance of the Black Cockerel has learned that the mediators have presented a new general document to the negotiating parties, who responded to it yesterday. It... | [
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Army General Abilio Kamalata Numa, chief of staff for the northern front, says Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola [MPLA] troops are trying to enter diamond rich areas of Lunda Province. Gen. Numa said a huge motorized column left Dondo for N'Dalatando a few hours ago. The column consists of more than 2,000 m... | [
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There was no plenary meeting at the Lusaka peace talks yesterday, but important steps were nevertheless taken to restore peace in this country. The Voice of Resistance of the Black Cockerel has learned that the mediators have presented a new general document to the negotiating parties, who responded to it yesterday. It... | [
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Ulundi March 4 SAPA -- The Inkatha Fredom Party [IFP] on Friday decided to conditionally register for South Africa's first all-race election in April. The IFP said any further steps in its participation in the electoral process would be conditional on mediation to try to resolve outstanding consttational differences, m... | [
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[Report by C. Doonan] Ulundi March 4 SAPA -- The Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] on Friday [4 March] said it would register for the April elections but would only contest the poll pending mediation on amending the constitution and rationalising electoral timetables. This emerged after a six-hour IFP Central Committee meet... | [
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UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola] has repeated its accusation that there are soldiers fighting for the Angolan government forces. The accusation comes this time from UNITA in northern Angola. General Abilio Kamalata Numa said that marines and Zairean soldiers are participating in clashes tak... | [
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[Excerpt] The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] has once again attacked Portugal. The UNITA commander in northern Angola today accused marines of fighting alongside Angolan government troops in the struggle to retake positions in the oil-rich areas. In Portugal, the navy has denied this. Acco... | [
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[From the "Focus on Africa" program] The veteran president of Malawi, Hastings Banda, has made a rare public appearance, attending a church service in the city of Blantyre. Dr. Banda went to a Roman Catholic church to commemorate those killed during the campaign for independence from Britain. Dr. Banda, who is officia... | [
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The unarmed opposition parties have accused the government of edging out and discriminating against political parties by not permitting their effective participation in the elections scheduled for October. In a memorandum submitted to the president of the republic, the opposition parties say under the prevailing condit... | [
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The training of the first of three special forces battalions to be integrated in the future Mozambique Defense Armed Forces [FADM] is expected to begin this week in the former Nacala Air Base in Nampula Province. This was revealed by DOMINGO newspaper. On 3 March 40 troops from the government and the Mozambique Nationa... | [
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Bujumbura, March 7 (AFP) - Up to 200 people were killed in weekend clashes with ethnic overtones between civilians and soldiers in an outlying district of Bujumbura, Radio Burundi reported Monday [7 March]. Witnesses said some 20 bodies were brought out of the northern Kamenge district after fighting between civilians ... | [
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[Statement issued by Interior and National Security Minister Jean-Claude Dobanga Boti in Bangui on 6 March--recorded] Ladies and gentlemen, dear fellow citizens. The Central African Republic has installed political democracy. It has become a state where there is the rule of law. Since his investiture, the elected pres... | [
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Chad and Libya are still seeking to reach an agreement on Libya's withdrawal from the Aozou Strip. Delegates of the two countries have been meeting in Ndjamena since 4 March without reaching an agreement. The Libyan delegation is even asking for the postponement of the meeting. Lucien Mpoungui reports: [Begin Mpoungui ... | [
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Ndjamena, 7 Mar (AFP) -- The Chadian-Libyan talks in Ndjamena over Tripoli's withdrawal from the Aozou Strip "have failed," Chadian Interior Minister Abderamane Izzo Miskine said today following the adjournment of the talks. He was speaking at a news conference. Asked to comment about a possible resumption of the discu... | [
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Ndjamena, March 7 (AFP)--Negotiations on a withdrawal of Libyan troops from the disputed Aouzou Strip in northern Chad have broken down, Chadian Interior Minister Abderamane Izzo said Monday [7 March]. Last week Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi said the dispute between Tripoli and Ndjamena over the territory "was de... | [
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[Article by Arlette Khouri: "It Has Been Confirmed to AL-HAYAH That a Broad Front for the Opposition Is Close To Being Formed; a Chadian Opposition Leader Accuses France of Supporting the Deby System for the Sake of Its Own Oil Interests"] Paris--The president of the Movement for Democracy and Development in Chad, Mou... | [
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President Pascal Lissouba arrived in Paris this evening for a two-day working visit. The Congolese president will hold talks with President Francois Mitterrand and Cooperation Minister Michel Roussin. Before his departure, President Lissouba was a guest of "Africa Midday" progam, during which he took the opportunity t... | [
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In Gabon, the national and higher education union as well as the postal, social security, Electricity and Water Company workers' unions are calling for a four-day strike as of tomorrow in protest against the dismissal of (Jean-Claude Mengue Volo), the post and telecommunications union chairman. Apart from that, politic... | [
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[Excerpts] President Habyarimana today made a one-day visit to Uganda, accompanied by the minister of defense. Landouald Ndasingwa, the minister of social affairs, was absent although he was supposed to be present. There must be a good reason for this. There are many reasons for the visit. Reports say that President Ha... | [
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[Excerpts] Prime Minister Faustin Birindwa yesterday presided over the weekly cabinet meeting. [passage omitted] On the state of the nation, the cabinet observed that there is effective calm throughout the whole country. The cabinet however condemned the fallacious statement made by a politician to the effect that ther... | [
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Hopes of a speedy end to a strike by public servants in Bophuthatswana were dashed today when President Lucas Mangope walked out of a crisis meeting aimed at resolving the issue. President Mangope called on the striking workers to outline their problems, but they insisted that he should address them first. The strike, ... | [
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[Report by Micel Schnehage] Mmabatho Mar 7 SAPA -- Bophuthatswana's President Lucas Mangope said on Monday that he was optimistic that international mediation could lead to a constitutional agreement before the April election. Bophuthatswana's "Information Service" mouthpiece quoted Mr Mangope as saying at a news conf... | [
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[Excerpts] Tension in Bophuthatswana has increased, following a decision by President Lucas Mangope's cabinet not to register for the election. A full session of the country's parliament will decide next week on participation in the April election. Reports of a troop build-up on the South African side of the border wer... | [
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The government has warned Bophuthatswana that a new government will turn off the economic taps to the territory unless free political activity is allowed there. Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha appealed to moderates within the Bophuthatswana cabinet to reconsider a decision not to participate in the election. He expr... | [
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[Report by C Molusi] Johannesburg March 7 SAPA -- The African National Congress [ANC] will ensure budget allocation transfers to Bophuthatswana are halted to force the homeland government to allow canvassing for a free and fair election, ANC Election Commission head Popo Molefe said on Monday [7 March]. Addressing a m... | [
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[Report by G Arde] Durban March 7 SAPA--There is a "strong likelihood" the Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] will not observe Wednesday's [9 March] deadline for the submission of its election candidate list to the Independent Electoral Commission [IEC], it emerged on Monday. Reaffirming this view from IFP National Chairman ... | [
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[Report by J Saunders] Port Elizabeth March 7 SAPA -- The elections should be postponed to ensure a fair and inclusive settlement Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] President Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Monday [7 Monday]. But he gave no indication of when he had in mind. "Without an all-inclusive election we really do run t... | [
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[By Dirk van Zyl] Cape Town March 7 SAPA -- The Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] gained its fourteenth MP on Monday when James Kuiler, MP for Manenberg, announced his resignation from the National Party [NP]. Mr Kuiler entered the House of Representatives in 1989 as a Labour Party MP, and in 1991 joined the NP. The IFP now... | [
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Three newspapers this morning report that General Constand Viljoen's Freedom Front will contest next month's election after all. However, this cannot be confirmed at this state. According to the NATAL MERCURY, THE CAPE TIMES, and BUSINESS DAY, the decision was taken at a secret meeting last night. The papers said this ... | [
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[Report by Norman Patterton] Pretoria March 8 SAPA -- The pro-election faction of the Afrikaner Volksfront [Afrikaner National Front, AVF] is still considering participating in the April election, Afrikaner Vryheidstigting [Freedom Foundation] leader Carel Boshoff said on Tuesday. He was reacting to speculation that a... | [
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[By N Patterton and E van Wyk] Pretoria March 7 SAPA -- Afrikaner Volksfront [Afrikaner National Front, AVF] Constitutional Committee Chairman Fanie Jacobs said on Monday [7 March] he was not aware of pro-election AVF leaders lobbying secretly to take part in the April poll. This meant Gen Constand Viljoen's registrat... | [
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[Report by Fred de Lange and SAPA] The pro-election faction the Afrikaner Volksfront [Afrikaner National Front, AVF] yesterday claimed there was a plot to assassinate General Constand Viljoen if he attempts to continue his efforts to take the Volksfront into the election. The plot allegedly has its origin in militant ... | [
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The Gazankulu chief minister, Chief Nxumalo, has withdrawn the Ximoko Progressive Party from the election. Speaking at Giyani, the chief said the split in the party had left him with no choice but to align himself with the ANC [African National Congress]. The chief was suspended as president of the party at a congress ... | [
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[Report by T Levy] Giyani, Gazankulu March 6 SAPA -- Gazankulu's Ximoko Progressive Party has ousted three executive members responsible for registering the party for the elections and has thrown its weight behind the African National Congress [ANC]. At a special congress in Giyani on Saturday [5 March] the party gave... | [
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[Report by Andrew Thimson] Johannesburg March 4 SAPA -- The Green Party led by Nathan Grant on Friday afternoon became the 22nd party to register for the April elections. The party is registered in the Western Cape only, said a spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission [IEC]. The IEC gave the party's telephon... | [
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[Report by P. Bulger] Johannesburg March 4 SAPA -- An African National Congress [ANC] government would downplay South Africa's role as a regional power in southern Africa, ANC foreign affairs director Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mr Mbeki was presenting a discussion paper, Foreign Policy in a Democratic South Africa, t... | [
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[Statement issued by the ANC on 7 March on SAPA PR Wire Service] The ANC [African National Congress] remains firmly committed to a free and fair elections campaign, where all parties will have access to all voters. During the last few weeks the ANC has been criticised for the actions of people who claim ANC membership... | [
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The ANC [African National Congress] says there is little likelihood that Parliament will be moved from Cape Town in the foreseeable future. The head of the department of information and publicity in the Western Cape, Mr. Bulelani Ngcuka, and parliamentary candidate Jay Naidoo told a news conference that building anothe... | [
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[Report on interview with COSATU General Secretary Sam Shilowa by unidentified correspondent; place and date not given] End of Crude Apartheid Apartheid in its crude form will soon be a thing of the past. What will remain are institutions and structures at a political and socio-economic level. The key danger to the tr... | [
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Spoornet [rail network] has confirmed that an official investigation has been ordered into this morning's train accident at Marianhill, north of Durban, in which at least 90 people were killed and 52 critically injured. The accident happened when a commuter train headed for Durban was derailed between Thornwood and Mar... | [
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Pretoria March 7 SAPA -- Military police are investigating the theft of a reportedly large cache of weapons from an Air Force depot near Pretoria at the weekend. Sources feared it might have been an inside job by rightwingers. The military and not police were carrying out initial investigations. Though SAAF [South Afri... | [
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Pretoria March 8 SAPA -- About 50 light weapons had been stolen from the Air Force's 10 Air Depot, Air Force Headquarters said in a statement on Tuesday [8 March]. It was suspected three or four people were involved in the weekend burglary which was discovered on Monday morning. Air Force police and the South African P... | [
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[Report by Jan Taljaard] The cabinet has been briefed about a comprehensive rightwing war plan that has been in existence since the end of last year. The cabinet was told -- in a document marked "secret" leaked to the MAIL & GUARDIAN [WM&G] -- of rightwing plans to hijack the South African Defence Force's Rapid Deploy... | [
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[By Chris Louw] Rightwing burgerrade (civil councils) are poised to take over about 283 town councils in a bid to thwart the integration of local government. With the elections due next month, the battle has shifted from national level to city and town councils in a groundswell described as "extremely dangerous" by lo... | [
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[By Enrico Kemp] Tzaneen March 7 SAPA -- African National Congress [ANC] President Nelson Mandela on Monday [7 March] blamed township violence on the government's refusal to deploy troops in affected areas. Commenting on Sunday's massacre in Bhambayi, in which 11 people were killed, he said the ANC's recommendation th... | [
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[Report by Jimmy Seepe] There was increasing concern in ANC [African National Congress] ranks this week following rumours that yet another of the organisation's leaders was being targeted by assassins. Police this week dispatched a confidential communique to the ANC saying that they had been told by an unnamed source ... | [
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Johannesburg March 7 SAPA -- At least 245 people were killed and 302 people injured or wounded in political violence in South Africa in February in the seventh successive month of decline in such violence, the Human Rights Commission [HRC] said on Monday [7 March]. The HRC said in a report it recorded 361 incidents of ... | [
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["Summary Report" issued by the Human Rights Commission] Main Events and Trends in February Peace initiatives in the PWV [Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging] region are succeeding in returning violence levels to the manageable proportions of a year ago. Natal is now strongly centre-stage in the political violence wi... | [
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One-hundred-seventeen members of the National Peacekeeping Force receiving training at the General De Wet training center outside Bloemfontein have resigned since the start of the weekend. A spokesman for the force said that reasons for the resignations varied from domestic problems to dissatisfaction with conditions a... | [
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The Portuguese foreign minister, Dr. Jose Manuel Barroso, has warned that there is not much time left for an all-inclusive political settlement in South Africa and that there's potential for civil conflict if this fails. He was addressing a news conference in Johannesburg after meeting CP [Conservative Party] leader, D... | [
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South Africa and Russia have signed an agreement providing for closer cooperation in the areas of labor and social relations. Speaking at the ceremony in Pretoria, Manpower Minister Leon Wessels said that South Africa had survived a protracted period of isolationism, however, now that doors were opening to the country,... | [
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[Editorial Report] THE STAR Bophuthatswana Rejection of Election Process Baffling -- "Who, for example, would ever have imagined General Tienie Groenewald coming out on the side of those advocating participation in the election?" asks a page-16 editorial in Johannesburg THE STAR in English on 8 March. "The thinking beh... | [
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In Benin, joint maneuvers between the national army and the army lasting until 11 March are starting today. Similar maneuvers have just taken place in Cote d'Ivoire. The Nigerian authorities are very unhappy with these Franco-Beninese maneuvers, calling them a show of force. It must be stressed that Nigeria was quite ... | [
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We would like to inform our many listeners and the public that the delegation headed by Vice President Enoch Dogolee from the NPRAG [National Patriotic Reconstruction Assembly Government]-controlled areas to Monrovia, we understand, is being delayed right now in Kakata, where in fact, ULIMO [United Liberation Movement ... | [
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Despite the arrival of ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States] chairman, President Nicephore Soglo of Benin, and other high-level dignitaries in Monrovia, the Liberian National Transitional Government [LNTG] has still not been seated. This is due to delay tactics being orchestrated by the Monrovia Group and ... | [
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President Taylor has made two additional appointments to the Liberia National Transitional Government. Mr. (Abu Kamara) becomes deputy minister of finance, while Mr. Lawrence Jekula goes to the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation as director general. President Taylor earlier appointed Mr. (Eric Bamba) as m... | [
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[From the "Focus on Africa" program] It has been a day of political confusion in Liberia today, where the Transitional Council was due to be sworn in this morning. Last week, the leadership of ULIMO [United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia] which signed the Cotonou Peace Accord with the NPFL [National Patr... | [
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The chairman of the State Council of the Liberia National Transitional Government, Counselor David Kpomakpor, has called on Liberians to reunite and rebuild a peaceful and (?prosperous nation). Chairman Kpomakpor made the call yesterday in an inaugural address delivered shortly after his induction as the chairman of th... | [
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[Excerpt] [passage omitted] Under the ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States] peace agreement signed last July, the collective presidency comprising the NPFL [National Patriotic Front of Liberia], the outgoing interim government, and ULIMO [United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia] is supposed to ... | [
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The ECOMOG [Economic Community of West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group] high command has warned the leadership of ULIMO [United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia] not to allow their infighting in Tubmanburg to spill over into Monrovia. ECOMOG field commander, Major General John Inienger, gave the ... | [
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President Alpha Oumar Konare this morning received Cooperation Minister Michel Roussin, who had already held a working session with Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Finance Minister Soumaila Cisse. Discussions centered on France's cooperation to support the Malian Government's and people's efforts following t... | [
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Brigadier General Fred Chijuka, the director of Nigeria's defense information, has reasserted Nigeria's claim to the Bakassi Peninsula. He said that the peninsula, including its eastern part of (?Zabari), had been part of Nigerian territory since 1914 and will remain so. Speaking on a Voice of Nigeria interview, Brig. ... | [
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The chief of army staff, Major General Mohamed Chris Alli, has assured the nation that Nigeria will not concede any portion of her territory to any country. He gave the assurance over the weekend while undertaking a second tour of Bakassi Peninsula to assess the situation in the Nigeria-Cameroon border dispute. Address... | [
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[By Paul Ejime] Atabong (Bakassi Peninsula), 8 March (PANA) -- Nigerian fishermen on the disputed Bakassi Peninsula say they are still being harassed by Cameroonian gendarmes. Local residents of Atabong West, with Nigerian troops, told the PAN AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY Tuesday [8 March] that the latest harassment was on Sun... | [
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Nairobi, 8 March (AFP) -- A Saudi Arabian Airlines plane was hijacked early Tuesday [8 March] on a flight between Addis Ababa and Jiddah and made an emergency landing here, the Saudi Airlines office in the Kenyan capital said. All 159 passengers were allowed to leave the plane, an Airbus, after it landed around 4:30 A.... | [
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A Saudi airliner was this morning hijacked to Nairobi. The plane is said to have landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 0400. Reports from the airport say that the crew and passengers were allowed to disembark and are being looked after in the VIP pavilion at the airport. Officials of the airline in Nairo... | [
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A spokesman for the National Alliance [SNA] has said that Pakistani troops threw out wounded s who had been admitted to their hospitals. The SNA spokesman described the move as the worst violation of human rights, adding that the Pakistani troops had previously committed such a violation. The spokesman added that some... | [
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[Excerpt] President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda is in Uganda for a one-day official visit. President Habyarimana, who arrived at Entebbe International Airport this morning, was accorded a red carpet welcome by his host, President Yoweri Museveni, acknowledged the national anthems of both countries, and inspected a gu... | [
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[Excerpts] President Yoweri Museveni and President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda have agreed to set up a joint technical commission to study the problem of Rwandan refugees in Uganda and to recommend a permanent solution to the problem and work out modalities for their orderly return home. The two leaders also recommen... | [
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The Bophuthatswana capital of Mmabatho was quiet overnight after another day of tension, with no signs of an alleged coup. Feelings ran high yesterday following a Bophuthatswana cabinet decision not to participate in the April election. The announcement came amid an already volatile situation as civil servants demandin... | [
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[Excerpt] Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, and Isayas Afewerki of Eritrea arrived in Nairobi this morning for a one-day Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development, IGADD, head of states committee for the summit on the Sudanese peace negotiations. On hand to meet them at Jomo K... | [
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[Excerpt] The Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development [IGADD] committee on the conflict in the Sudan comprising of Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, and Isayas Afewerki of Eritrea met in Nairobi today under the chairmanship of His Excellency President Daniel arap Moi at Stat... | [
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Sudan has again emphasized its confidence in the initiative of Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development [IGADD] for establishing peace in southern Sudan and its readiness to participate in peace negotiations at any appointed time. Foreign Minister Husayn Abu-Salih, in a news conference in Nairobi today, s... | [
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[Excerpt] Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia left Nairobi this evening after attending a fruitful one-day Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development, IGADD, heads of state committee for the summit on the Sudanese peace negotiations chaired by President Daniel arap Moi at State... | [
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[Excerpt] Bujumbura, 9 March (AFP) -- Tribal killings have spread to a previously unaffected part of Burundi, a provincial governor reported as ethnic tensions remain high more than four months after the assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye. About 50 minority Tutsi were slain on Monday [7 March] night by majorit... | [
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I have come to give myself up to the law. That, in essence, was what former President Andre Kolingba said after holding discussions with President Ange Felix Patasse at the Palais de la Renaissance in the presence of Ngoupande, secretary general of the Central African Democratic Rally [RDC], whose founding chairman is ... | [
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