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Local Beauty Salon Linked To Tokars Case
By Warren Woodberry, Jr.
Staff Writer
On a nice warm and sunny
semester day, Fair St. and James
p. Brawley Dr., the two main
strips in the Atlanta University
Center (AUC) can be found lined
with cars and crowded sidewalks.
AUC students are intereacting,
having conversations, listening to
hip hop music, and lounging on
brick walls. The atmosphere is so
live that it seem more like a
block party than a college cam
pus. When the weather’s this
nice, many students can’t resist
the urge to skip a class or two
just to take in some sun and fresh
air.
For AUC businesses, students
tend to spend more money in the
AUC epi-center purchasing tee
shirts, books and food.
Business is so good for one
establishment, that it attracts a
number of AUC students along
the Brawley strip. The Shear
Magic Beauty Salon, located
across from the Robert Woodruff
Library, seems to lure a distinc
tive crowd outside its doors.
Because of the image, Shear
Magic has received some criti
cism when it was poorly linked to
an incident that shocked Atlanta
during Thanksgiving weekend
1992. Cobb county housewife
Sara Tokars, 39, was brutally
slain in an alleged murder plot,
which involved her suspected
husband Fredric Tokars, 40, a
successful Cobb County lawyer.
NATIONAL NEWS
Political Violence
Sweeps South Africa
By Gomotsang Seema
Staff Writer
Bophuthatswana - one of the ten tribal homelands in South
Africa, erupted in violence recently ago after the overthrow of
its President Lucas Manyane Mangope.
The popular uprising took place after the homeland leader’s
refusal to allow his 2,5 million citizens to take part in the coming
elections. The capital city of the homeland called Mmabatho,
was no longer the same after the violence.
According to a native of Mmabatho, Ndumiso Cingo, “1 wish
I was there to witness the uprising.” He also stated that it has
been long overdue that Mangope be taken out of the office and
let the citizens vote during the elections.
In an article written in Washington post, Bophuthattswana
was created 17 years ago by apartheid engineers whose grand
design was to make South Africa’s rural Blacks citizens of for
eign lands or tribally based homelands. About 56 percent of
South Africa’s Blacks live in the homeland.
Bophuthatswana is part of the “Freedom Alliance” which was
formed by the right-wingers -AWB, Inkatha under the leader
ship of Gatsha Buthelezi, and other parties that oppose the elec
tions. The alliance was designed to oppose the elections with the
hope that both Mangope and Buthelezi stay in power.
According to Clayton Ntloko, a graduate student at Clark
Atlanta University from South Africa, “There is no telling that
the rate of violence is going to decrease after the elections. Most
of us are worried if we will be able to obtain jobs after gradua
tion.” He further sated that people like Mangope and Buthelezi
do not want to see a democratic South Africa. “What’s funny
about Inkhatha freedom Party is that when it was first estab
lished, the motive was to unite the Zulus and not fight against
other progressive parties. It was then after Mandela’s release
that they changed their focus to opposing any progressive move
ment,” Ntloko emphasized.
African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela, is not
threatened by any of these homeland leaders.
According to an article in the Washington Post, “It was short
ly after the overthrow of Mangope’s leadership that he visited
Mmabatho to ensure the citizens that they can take part in the
voting and be able to exercise free political activity.”
Mandela went on to mention that the Transitional Executive
Council, which is an alliance established by the government to
monitor the elections, sent the South African troops to depose
Mangope. “The dispatch with which the executive council
brought down the obstructionist Mangope should serve as a
warning to other “Toy tyrants” in the country, “ Mandela stated.
With reference to Kwazulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Mmabatho’s damage was estimated to $60 million after the
looting at the famous shopping center called Megacity.
Charged with murder that
December was Fredric Tokars’
business associate Eddie
Lawrence, along with triggerman
Curtis Rower, who confessed to
the murder and kidnapping of
Sara Tokars, in a Cobb Country
Superior Court.
Sara Tokars was beleived to
have evidenece about malicious
business dealings between her
husband an Lawrence, that could
convict an end their careers
according to People Magazine.
Ironically Lawrence, a real
estate agent, leased the renovated
house in which Shear Magic
resides. The house was sold to
Lawrence by Fred Tokars before
the murder incident. During the
first two months of the investiga
tion, Shear Magic received a host
of media attention.
Criticized for the fancy cars
parked outside its doors, and the
fashionably well dressed people
who went behind them, the beau
ty salon was labled a haven for
drug dealers by the media as a
social gathering place among
AUC students.
“It just so happens that some
people at the AUC have nice
cars,” said Will Bowman, 25,
barber and head manager at
Shear Magic. He said there are
many college students that are
quite wealthy, and that they just
so happen to seek business at his
shop.
Ken Hull, 22, a junior at
Morris Brown College recalls
Shear Magic Salon and Fred
Tokars being on the news togeth
er two years ago. He said he got
the impression Shear Magic was
owned by a drug ring from gener
al talk on campus.
“If they (the media) don’t
have proven facts agaisnt them,
then it’s nothing but hearsay,”
said hull. “People are going to
talk and draw their own conclu
sions regardless.”
After bombarding questions
and unsuccessful research, jour
nalists discovered no connections
between the Shear Magic staff
and tokars, and reportedly left the
shop alone.
The real estate agency owned
by Lawrence no longer collects
the rental fees for the shop,
Bowman said, and the property
has been seiged by another reali
ty company.
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