De Klerk's Murder is an
Indictment, says Winnie Mandela
The murder of former first lady Marike de
Klerk was an indictment on the country, and a sign that
all should become involved in the fight against crime,
African National Congress Women's League president
WInnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Saturday.
"It is a tragedy that a woman who has contributed so
much to the history of our country should have left us
in such a tragic manner," she told reporters after
attending a memorial service for De Klerk at the
Wapadrant Gereformeerde Kerk in Pretoria.
"Perhaps this is God's own way of waking us up to what
is happening. The crime situation in the country has now
been brought to the attention of each and every one of
us. No matter who we are or what our standing is in the
community, we should do something about it as South
Africans and as the government."
Madikizela-Mandela was one of hundreds of people who
came to show their last respects at the church following
De Klerk's burial earlier in the morning at the Rebecca
Street cemetery in Pretoria West.
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Former
first lady Marike de Klerk buried in South Africa
PRETORIA, South Africa (December 8, 2001 4:14 p.m. EST)
- South Africa's former first lady Marike de Klerk was
laid to rest in a private ceremony Saturday, five days
after she was strangled in her Cape Town apartment.
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West Africa
Ebola outbreak kills 11
GENEVA (AP) - Eleven people, almost all from an
extended family, have died in the latest outbreak
of Ebola as experts race to contain the highly
contagious disease in the West African nation of
Gabon, the United Nations said today.
World Health Organization Gregory Hartl said all
the deaths appeared to have occurred last week,
and that it was rising because health experts were
getting a better idea of the extent of the
outbreak.
The outbreak was first reported Dec. 4 in remote
Ogooue Ivindo province in northeastern Gabon, near
the border with the Republic of Congo.
It has been pinpointed to a settlement about 40
miles southeast of the town of Mekambo, he said.
The WHO does not have a total count of infections,
Hartl said.
The dead include 10 members of an extended family
and a health worker, Hartl said. That is a typical
pattern for Ebola, which spreads quickly to people
coming in contact with the patients or their
bodies.
He said a second team of WHO specialists was being
assembled to fly to Gabon this evening, following
a group of experts sent out last week.
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