Is there a real opposition? South Africa.

The Economist (US);  December 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ......never got a grip on Leon The impending retirement...opposition leader, Tony Leon, raises questions about the future of South Africa's democracy THE...decade later. Mr Leon remembers how...Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first post-apartheid...suggested that Mr Leon, the ...

Black-White Dialogue Urged for South Africa; Shultz Panel Suggests Strong...

The Washington Post;  February 11, 1987 ;     515 words ......requirement" for effective U.S. policy toward South Africa was "strong presidential leadership." It called...nonracial, democratic political system in South Africa. To bring South Africa to the negotiating table, the report recommended...direct air travel between the United States ...

U.S. Businesses Reversing Trend Away from South Africa

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 4, 1993 ;     283 words ......established economic links to South Africa in the past 1 1/2 years...new U.S. investment in South Africa. That ban was included...the other 13 went into South Africa last year. The IRRC declined...this again," said Rev. Leon Sullivan, author of an operating code for companies ...

South Africa: why Leon Sullivan gave up his 'principles.'

U.S. News & World Report;  June 15, 1987 ;     445 words ...South Africa: Why Leon Sullivan gave up his principles' For...conscience: Were U.S. companies in South Africa helping to end apartheid by following...called on U.S. companies to leave South Africa and demanded that the U.S. sever diplomatic...

South Africa keeps distance from Zimbabwe crisis.

United Press International;  April 10, 2000 ;     593 words ......is building Sunday on South Africa to intervene in the...discuss that, he added. South Africa is Zimbabwe's largest...southern Africa after South Africa. Press reports in Zimbabwe...of Zimbabweans into South Africa, in the event that Zimbabwe...warrant interference from ...

South Africa MP Tony Leon Will Spend Three Months at the Cato Institute

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 14, 2008 ;     258 words ......following news release: Tony Leon, a member of parliament in South Africa for nearly 20 years and the...20 years in the frontline of South African politics, where I am...in my country in 1994," says Leon. Leon, a native of KwaZulu...s former President, called Leon "A leader ...

As heat on South Africa builds across the U.S.

U.S. News & World Report;  December 17, 1984 ;     700+ words ......constructive engagement, which seeks to get South Africa to eliminate apartheid through persuasion...force the Reagan administration to abandon its South Africa policy. The pressure appeared to have impact on South Africa, if not on Reagan. Embassy officials said that 11 prisoners ...

South Africa: Trooping the color

Global Finance;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......plain pathetic. The price of gold, the core of South Africa's financial well-being, is plummeting to all-ti...South Africans. Worse still, the cream of South Africa's corporations are packing their bags and...ndon's stock exchange. These are rocky times for South Africa, ...

Mandela's Message to U.S. Firms: Wait; Investments in South Africa...

The Washington Post;  June 21, 1990 ;     700+ words ......injustices of apartheid, South Africa's system of racial segregation...premature to invest in South Africa or lift trade sanctions...that have been involved in South Africa or could be major future...Express, Bear Stearns, and Leon Templesman & Sons, a diamond...Africa. The ...

OIC opens its first center in Natal, South Africa

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  August 16, 1996 ;     610 words ......its first center in Natal, South Africa. Rev, Leon Sullivan's influence is already...felt all over the world. Now South Africa is feeling it. OIC, founded...somewhere. Now there is one in South Africa. The center officially opened...in the Natal Midlands in South ...

Undermined; Mining in South Africa.

The Economist (US);  November 18, 2006 ;     676 words ......Regulatory uncertainty has harmed South Africa's mining industry THE past five...almost 60%. Except, that is, in South Africa. According to figures published...almost a third in 2004 and 2005. South Africa's mineral operating profits...And gold, once the pillar of South ...

Citing change in South Africa, Bush lifts sanctions

The Boston Globe;  July 11, 1991 ;     700+ words ......action tilted toward the apartheid regime in South Africa with "an erroneous and self-serving interpretation...required sanctions to remain in place until South Africa released all political prisoners, lifted a...addition, American crude oil could not flow to South Africa, nor could ...

Litvak culture is alive and well in South Africa

Jerusalem Post;  September 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Lithuanian Jews," Tony Leon, head of the small liberal...committed communists, South Africa's Litvaks, as Lithuanian...Jewish past remain. "South Africa is more Litvak than...from Lithuania look to South Africa, we see our culture...But it has lived on in South ...

Divided we stand; South Africa's opposition.(South Africa's political...

The Economist (US);  October 27, 2001 ;     515 words ...Kiss of death for Leon's alliance The political...are persecuted. South Africa's Democratic Alliance...party that subjected South Africa to apartheid until...DA's leader, Tony Leon, fumes that Mr Marais...24th, Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, made...him squirm. But ...

A new leader for the opposition; South Africa.(South Africa's new...

The Economist (US);  May 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......certain never to become South Africa's president. It is virtually...ANC) out of power. But South Africa badly needs a vigorous...the DA, to succeed Tony Leon, is a notable event. It...leader of what has become South Africa's main opposition, Mr Leon voluntarily stepped ...