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Volume I • Number 10
Atlanta, Georgia
December 6,1993
News in
Brief
Complied by
Tarsha Burton
Features Assistant
New York: Twelve
Brooklyn police officer
belonging to the 73RD
precinct are under investiga
tion for unofficial crack
house raids. The twelve offi
cer’s would reportedly select
a crack house, descend upon
it in police cars with guns
and rob the occupants, and
later divide the money, drugs,
and guns amongst them
selves. A federal grand jury
in New York is hearing these
charges.
Washington, D.C.: The
Brady Handgun Control Bill
was signed by President
Clinton on Dec. 1, 1993. The
bill, which is now a law, will
require a five day waiting
period before the purchase of
a handgun. It was a happy
occasion for Jim Brady and
wife Sarah who have worked
for seven years to get the law
passed.
Florida: One person was
killed, and several injured in
an Amtrak train crash. The
silver Meteor Passenger train,
en route from Tampa, Florida
to New York with a 98 pas
senger load, hit a tractor-trail
er rig south of Kissimmee,
Florida.
Alaska: An Anchorage,
Alaska resident was relaxing
in front of the television at a
remote Air Force radar sta
tion when he spotted an 8
foot tall polar bear peeking in
the window. The bear,
reportedly, had it’s paws, and
nose pressed against the win
dow pane. When he tried to
shoo it away by swatting a
rolled up newspaper at the
glass pane the bear ducked
and crashed through the 7
foot window above ground.
When the man tried to escape
the bear attacked mauling the
man’s chest, neck, and face
before it was shot to death by
a co-worker. The man is
being held, in serious condi
tion, at Anchorage hospital.
Bonita Irving, shown here with a cowork
er, died November 19 in fatal car crash.
AUC Security Guard
Dies In Car Accident
By Alex Waldron
Staff Writer
Students in the Atlanta University
Center are in mourning over the
death of Security Officer, Bonita
Louise Irving.
Irving, died Nov. 19 at Peachtree
Regional Hospital, due to injuries suf
fered from a car accident while traveling
to work from Nunan, Georgia.
According to AUC Chief of Security,
Charles R. Rhodes, the accident occured
around 8:00 a.m.. An elderly man pulled
out in front of Ms. Irving, causing her
car to swerve and turn over repeatedly.
Rhodes continued to add that the elderly
gentlemen claims that he did not see
Irving because she did not have her car
lights on. Police are currently investi
gating the incident.
The 26 year old Coweta County native
was remembered by colleagues as a
bright, hard working and dependable
individual who was loved by faculty and
students. “Bonita, had a really pleasant
attitude,” said Clark Atlanta University
student, Adrien Pertilla. “She did her
job without being rude or overly bossy,”
he said. Pertilla continued, “After a
while I saw her as a friend, instead of
someone working for the school."
“I was shocked when I heard the
news,” said Chandra Thomas, a CAU
student. "She was friendly and she
always had a smile on her face," stated
Thomas. “CAU suffered a great loss,”
she said.
Services were held Monday,
November 22 at Mount Calvary Baptist
Church in Moreland, Georgia. Irving
leaves behind a fiancee and baby daugh
ter.
South Africa Headed for Political Change
By Gomotsang Seema
Staff Writer
South Africa’s first non-racial election will
be held next year under an agreement
reached by a 26-party negotiating forum that
is steering the country from apartheid to
democracy.
Eve Thompson, a representative of the
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights,
expounded on the agreement recently at a
symposium held in Atlanta University
Center at the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
According to Thompson, the agreement was
a major compromise between the African
National Congress, the incumbent white
minority government, and the Zulu-based
Inkhatha Freedom Party.
She also stated that there have been sev
eral additional agreements made by the par
ties during the negotiations. Among them,
an election which will include a constituent
assembly to draft a constitution. “The con
stituent assembly will be bound by a set of
constitutional principles,” said Thompson.
A national unity government will be cre
ated in the form of a coalition. “This coali
tion includes the majority voters and the sig
nificant minority parties,” said Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights representative.
In addition, Thompson stated that an
agreement was made to set up a Transitional
Executive Committee which will consult the
government on major concerns. “The
Committee has a mandate to oversee the
whole transition process and it is the govern
ment’s job to be accountable to the commit
tee on areas such as defense, security,
women and intelligence,” said the represen
tative.
“Whenever we get
a chance to
maximize our
strengths to
liberate
ourselves, we will
do soV
Marobe Matsapola
Pan Africanist Congress
Representative
The negotiating body also agreed to
develop an Independent Election Committee
that will be responsible for running the elec
tions.
On the question of future security forces
raised at the symposium, Madala Mthembu,
an ANC representative said that, “We realize
that the entire civil service is dominated by
the Afrikaners who are White South
Africans that speak Afrikaan. The ANC has
seen to it that the new government considers
this matter and what we are asking for is
non-discrimination on the basis of color in
the military,” he said.
Mthembu went on to say that ANC wants
to see an integration of all the armies such as
Umkhonto We Sizwe ANC’s military wing,
Azanian People Liberation Army (APLA),
Pan-Africanist Congress’ (PAC) military
wing, South African Defense Force (SADF),
and other significant military wings that
exist within the country.
According to Thompson, although ANC
has suspended its military wing, PAC has
not yet suspended theirs. “APLA has been
identified with certain attacks on the white
civilians within the country, some of which
they have claimed responsibility for,"
Thompson said.
Maroba Matsapola, a PAC representative,
said that violence occurs everyday in the
townships. “Right now there are thousands
and thousands of people who are being shot
in the streets while the negotiations are
going on,” he said.
“We are at the table right now and when
ever we get a chance to maximize our
strengths to liberate ourselves, we will do
so,” Matsapola said.