Prosecuted S.African ex-apartheid minister dies ...Middle East

JOHANNESBURG: Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa's apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted, died Sunday aged 85 in a hospital near Pretoria, his family said.The former law and order minister, who oversaw a brutal police crackdown on opponents of white rule, “passed away early this morning in the Unitas Hospital in Centurion, after a short illness,“ a family spokesman said in a statement.In the late 1980s, Vlok oversaw bomb attacks on churches and trade unions seen as hostile to white-rule.“I believed that apartheid was right,“ he told AFP in 2015. “It was our job to make people fear us.”In his old age he said he had changed his mindset, and

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