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...time without trial?but some people did support and admire them because they did cut crime." Aid workers are already finding the post-Taliban regime more cumbersome to deal with: they need to negotiate with several different commanders to get anything done. "They are like small businesses," says Linda van Weyenburg of M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "Everything becomes more complicated and, of course, they all have to turn a profit...
...speech in the House of Assembly in October that got a standing ovation from A.N.C. legislators, N.N.P. leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk waxed lyrical about being part of "the building team" of a South African renaissance. In reply, President Thabo Mbeki gushed that Van Schalkwyk had shown inspiring "commitment to a common destiny." A.N.C. chairman Mosiuoa Lekota - whose guerrilla nickname when he was fighting the apartheid regime was "Terror" - said the Afrikaans and black communities "shared similar loyalties" and that committees had been set up to "explore cooperation" between the A.N.C. and N.N.P. at all levels of government...
...N.N.P.'s move is a bizarre political about-face that is being treated with a lot of skepticism in opposition circles. When support for the nationalists fell in the 1999 general election, Van Schalkwyk called for minority parties to create a united front against the A.N.C. Now, in order to make its overtures to the A.N.C., Van Schalkwyk's party had to divorce itself from just such a united front: the Democratic Alliance, whose leading member is the liberal Democratic Party, which emerged as the largest opposition in the 1999 election. The N.N.P. made the break in October...
...A.N.C. now seems set on pushing legislation through parliament to encourage such political defections. In return for crossing the floor, Van Schalkwyk and a few others of his party are likely to be offered posts by the A.N.C. in national and provincial governments while the Democratic Party - still in alliance with a small whites-only federalist party - continues to be the voice of opposition...
...dissent, to remove it. In order to survive, the party has had to make many changes. De Klerk resigned from the post-apartheid government and the party because, he said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose boyish, bespectacled appearance soon earned him the tag kortbroeke, or short-pants. Van Schalkwyk has desperately tried to rub out the lingering image of the old National Party, but he has its history of hatred and oppression to contend with...