1. Asked why she surrounded herself with them, she replied that former apartheid leaders also murdered children. 2. Those who predicted Fidel Castro would soon join Soviet bloc hardliners and South African apartheid leaders in the pantheon of historical has-beens may want to review their forecast. 3. Throughout the country, from the portraits in parliament to the names of streets and dams, there are monuments to apartheid leaders and to Afrikaner nationalists. 4. Although accepted internationally as meaning a collection of African peoples and languages, it is rejected by black South Africans because apartheid leaders used it. 5. Apartheid death squad leader talks to truth panel. 6. Botha and other apartheid leaders have mostly denied intimate knowledge of what went on a decade ago. 7. Botha has refused to appear, calling the panel a witch hunt against apartheid leaders. 8. Botha, the last hard-line apartheid leader, is expected to be charged with contempt for ignoring a subpoena to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 9. But Botha, the highest-ranking apartheid official to appear before the Truth Commission, stopped short of blaming apartheid government leaders for ordering atrocities. 10. But both stopped short of saying apartheid leaders ordered killings, torture and other abuses. |