The Washington Post, October 31st, 1995
A former defense minister and 10 senior apartheid-era military officers are to be charged with murder this week in the highest- reaching prosecution yet of anti-black hit squad activity, the government announced. The prospect of court action against Magnus Malan, minister of defense during the tumultuous 1980s and in the early 1990s under President Frederik W. de Klerk, has rocked South Africa's delicate political balance and aroused fears of renewed white right-wing violence. In particular, it has shattered the protective bubble that appeared to have shielded high-ranking apartheid leaders fr...
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