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...that South Africa will have broad-based political representation after the first all-race local elections in the country's history. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports from Cape Town: "The general trend is that the vote is going pretty much the same as the general election, meaning that the ANC is gaining most of the seats. But a surprise seems to be the number of black independent candidates who are winning local races. It appears that many blacks are disillusioned with the pace of change coming from the government, and are putting their faith in these independents. The white National...
Saying she had "more pressing" interests,Winnie Mandelaresigned from her Cabinet post one day before her estranged husband, President Nelson Mandela, was to dismiss her. Mrs. Mandela will remain an ANC member of Parliament and athorn in the president's side...
...said he will fire his wife only if authorities prove she abused her post. Hawthorne says Mrs. Mandela, convicted of kidnapping in 1991, has become a national embarrassment. He notes that since 1993, the president has spoken "hardly a word" to his wife, who also stands accused of abusing ANC funds, and appears to be in a "self-destruct mode...
...success of the ANC in the recent South African elections, coupled with the cooperative spirit in which Nelson Mandela has begun to form the country's new government, has provided enemies of racial discrimination all over the world with a cause to celebrate. One might argue that, finally, South Africa is on the way to possessing an egalitarian political system similar to our own; a system in which, as Justice O'Connor recently put it in a Supreme Court rejection of a race conscious districting proposal in North Carolina, "race on longer matters...
Other urban myths abound. Nicholas Gordon '95, who is based in Durban on the coast, told me of a woman at a public meeting who asked whether the ANC would really take over her house after the elections. Apparently, a man had knocked at her door, asked for a glass of water, and returned it with a R2 coin at the bottom "as down payment for your house...