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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 2, 1993                   TAG: 9304020045
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA                                LENGTH: Short

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3 NONWHITES JOIN CABINET IN S.AFRICA

An Indian and two mixed-race men were sworn in as Cabinet ministers Thursday as the first nonwhites in the government.

President F.W. de Klerk named Jac Rabie, Abe Williams and Bhadra Ranchod to the Cabinet in February in what was considered a move to bolster his standing among nonwhites. There has never been a black Cabinet minister.

Rabie and Williams are of mixed-race heritage, and Ranchod is an Indian. All three have faced criticism from anti-apartheid forces for working with the white government.

An effigy of Ranchod, the new tourism minister, was burned by Indian university students in 1986 when he became the first nonwhite South African foreign ambassador. He served at the European Community in Brussels, Belgium.

- Associated Press

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