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Mandela's speech came late in the day--two hours behind schedule--after a long afternoon of speeches and song. And while the ANC leader was making stops in Roxbury and at the JFK Library, the crowd at the Esplanade's Hatch Shell slowly grew, sometimes impatiently but always expecting something great...
Tutu, who directs a South African refugee scholarship fund in New York City, said at a reception before the event that her government's recent agreement to negotiate with the African National Congress (ANC) and to release ANC leader Nelson Mandela was in in large part a result of international pressure...
...Leroy Vail, who is an associate professor of history at Harvard, says the ANC itself might even split...
...There will be real politics in the Black community that there has not been before--not the facade of unity the people think of when they think of the ANC," Vail says...