1. One Pagad leader has been charged with sedition, the first time anyone in South Africa has faced this charge since apartheid was abandoned. 2. South Africa abandoned apartheid after an embargo, but that country allowed a measure of domestic opposition that Cuba does not. 3. South Africa abandoned apartheid with its first all-race election in April that brought President Nelson Mandela to power. 4. The controversy could engulf white politicians who say they have abandoned apartheid and want peace and reconciliation. 5. Vance was convinced that unless South Africa abandoned apartheid, the risk of racial war was high. |