South Africa Expels Newsweek Writer
From Times Wire Services
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
The government announced Wednesday that it has expelled senior Newsweek correspondent Ray Wilkinson for an article he co-authored in this week’s edition of the magazine.
Wilkinson, 41, a Briton who is the magazine’s bureau chief in Nairobi, Kenya, was on temporary assignment in South Africa.
Home Affairs Minister Stoffel Botha said in a statement that a Newsweek article entitled “The Young Lions,” about black anti-apartheid unrest, involved “selective reporting, half-truths and false innuendo.”
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