Los Angeles Times January 30, 2009 By Scott Kraft South Africa and I have a history, one that goes beyond the headlines. I arrived here as The Times’ bureau chief in 1988, when college campuses back home were pulsing with anti-apartheid protests, to cover what would turn out to be the last years of the black freedom struggle — bombings, funeral processions and brutal clashes with police. My phone was tapped by the government and, during one township visit, I was dragged from my car by armed young "comrades" from the African National Congress, saved only by my laminated press pass. Our children were born here, our daughter just a toddler when I watched Nelson Mandela walk free from prison. Our son arrived later that year, on the eve of another historic moment — the first round of negotiations between whites and blacks for a new constitution. Mandela’s release in

South Africa   Sunday Times ( South Africa) August 17, 2008   By Brendan Boyle   2. THE RACE CARD: Is it abused for political gain?   ‘We know that elites of all kinds, including black elites inour country, play race cards for their own narrow purposes’ – Jeremy Cronin ‘It is a refuge of all scoundrels, and we must eliminate itin our bod…