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.
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 exploding in shopping malls and sports arenas frequented by whites. Read more