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General Magnus André de Merindol Malan SSA, OMSG, SD, SM, MP (30 January 1930 – 18 July 2011) was a South African military figure and politician during the last years of apartheid in South Africa.
The death of Magnus Malan marks the passing of one of the most powerful and notorious leaders of the apartheid era.
Jul 18, 2011 · Magnus Malan was a military leader and apartheid defence minister who oversaw violent repression and cross-border raids. He was acquitted of murder charges in 1996 and testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997.
Jul 19, 2011 · Magnus Malan, a South African general and defense minister who in the 1980s helped devise and carry out his nation’s last-ditch strategy to preserve its system of rigid racial...
Jul 18, 2011 · Magnus Malan, the defence minister who led apartheid South Africa's resistance to black rule, has died aged 81. He led the white minority government's "total onslaught"...
Jul 22, 2011 · The death this week in Cape Town of former general Magnus André de Merindol Malan (81) severs a link with arguably the darkest decade in the recent history of both South Africa and the region.
Jul 18, 2011 · Magnus Malan, who has died at the age of 81, rose through the ranks of the military before serving as minister of defence from 1980 to 1991.
