Freedom Betrayed In South Africa

SOUTH AFRICAN police firing into squalid townships as frenzied mobs "necklace" their hapless victims with burning tyres. Not scenes from a documentary about the apartheid years, but South Africa today. The President, Thabo Mbeki, and his Government would like the world to believe that a mysterious criminal "third force" is responsible for the wave of xenophobic violence against foreigners that has claimed more than 40 lives and forced 25,000 people to flee their homes in the past fortnight. But ...