Slaughter In South Africa
It was the first time ANC hard-liners had gone for broke in a current drive to remove homeland leaders who support the government. Radicals like Kasrils have been itching to mount such a “mass action” operation since June, when the congress suspended talks with President F. W. de Klerk, accusing his security forces of complicity in a massacre in the black township of Boipatong. Half the leaders of the 10 ethnic enclaves created under apartheid support the government, but Ciskei’s Brig....