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Article: `Terror' and the judge finally meet as equals
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1994
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THE LAST time "Terror" Lekota bowed to a judge was in 1988 when
he was sentenced to 12 years in jail for high treason. Yesterday
morning he bowed again, this time to a judge who had just declared
him premier of the Orange Free State.
The setting was the Raadsaal, the council hall, in Bloemfontein,
symbolic seat of Afrikaner power in the Free State since the
arrival of the first settlers in 1839. The occasion was the first
sitting of the province's first democratic legislature, 24 of whose
elected representatives - of a total of 30 - were members of the
African National Congress.
The order of proceedings was set out in a 17-page document. This
is how it began:
1.1 09:55 Bells ring until 10:10.