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Scott Kraft

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Scott Kraft is deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times. A former national and foreign correspondent for the Times, he covered the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid.

The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

South Africa was boiling. It was 1986, and security forces were cracking down on anti-apartheid activists daily and with brutal force. Black activists were disappearing from the streets. Bombs were…