By P GGY HARRIS
im
c
elson
m
M nd I aid the "per ption
i taking root that the govern­
ment i I s than frugal in han-
dlin public finan "
A tudy of salari for minis­
t rs and other public officials
will oon present new guide-
11 n ,Mand la told parliament
Monday
Al 0 und r review is re­
rt 10 million rand (dl 2.7
million) renovation ofr idences
or th p id nt nd two deputy
p id nts, who took office after
th country's first non-racial
1 ctions in April.
H GO
dyis hard p to m
ormous co t of pro g
housing, creating jobs and bat­
tling he poverty to which the
bl ck majority was subjected by
apartheid.
Mandela was harshly criti­
cized Saturday by his anti­
apartheid ally and fellow Nobel
Peace Prize winner, Anglican
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for
allowing government officials to
take pay raises.
"They missed a golden oppor­
tunity in my view to demon­
strate that they were serious
about stopping the gravy train, ..
Mandela
returns
to former
•
pr son
aid he would rais the
pris n ov rowding i sue wi h
binet.
a govern-
on of th
in th world,
o counter
men pay
Tutu said. "Someone has ob- gravy train only long enough to
erved that they stopped the get on."
The alary i ue is p rticu­
I rly touchy because so many Af­
rican leaders have us their
posts to get rich, d pite the des­
titution of their countries.
Ordinary members of the new
South African parliament ar
paid 161,000 rand (dlrs 44,720)
annually plus 32,000 rand (dlrs
8,880) car allowance. Their
pred ors in th white apart­
heid parliament received
123,000 (dlrs 34,160) in annual
salary with an additional 77 4
rand (dlrs 215) monthly for ex­
penses and 158,000 rand (d
43,880) as a car allowance every
four years.
The average yearly salary in
South Africa is 14,400 rand (dlrs
4,000) and blacks typically earn
NELSON MANDELA much less.
Couple s er
skinheads attack
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A Black Des Moines man and his
wife, who is white, are recovering from ,a weekend attack by a
group of men who called themselves skinheads and said they
were going to kill the couple for marrying someone from an­
other race.
Lloyd Tate, 39, was taken to a Des Moines hospital after the
attack about 11 p.m. Saturday in a central Des Moines park ..
Sheri Tate managed to get away from the men and ran to a
nearby convenience store, where she called police.
"They were kicking me and stomping me and saying, 'We're
going to kill you and we're going to kill her," Lloyd Tate said
Sunday.
The Tates say they wer sitting in the park when a man
approached them and told them he was a skinhead. Several
other men then surrounded them, they said, and threatened to
kill them.
"THEY STOMPED and kicked and one guy pulled a knife.
Another guy had a knife trying to hold my back," Lloyd said. "I
turned around and-me and this other guy were wrestling and
stuff. Another guy kicked my foot out from under me nd 1 went
down. The next thing I know, 1 had about seven or eight guys
just kicking me in the face and back.
"Anywhere they could kick me, they kicked me."
Sheri Tate said he feared she wouldn't get help in. time. "1
was afraid they were going to kill him," she said. The couple
have been married for mor than a year, but their attackers
told them they don't belong together.
Lloyd Tate w s treat d Saturday night at a De Moines
hospital tor knife cu ·tc) hi hands and back and bruises around
his eyes and acros his head.
A boot print was still visible on his forehead Sunday.
He told poli the att ckers fled just fore officers arrived.
No arrests havebeen made.
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