Word: antiapartheid
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...antiapartheid movement's tasks at home and abroad have come to rest squarely on Mandela's shoulders. He embarked on his journey only a week after removal of a cyst from his bladder, and in recent years he has also had tuberculosis and prostate surgery. There were reports -- promptly denied by A.N.C. spokesmen and Mandela -- that he felt faint last week in Geneva and had to cancel a meeting. Out of concern for his health, planners in the U.S. tried to schedule free time between large events so Mandela would be able to rest. But Mandela does not have...
...Supreme Court ruling upholding flag burning ignites a political fire storm. But while the President and Congress wrap themselves in the flag, a host of serious problems is being ignored. -- An exclusive interview with antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela, who arrives in the U.S. this week...
...MAULING OF MANDELA. Antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela's ten-day tour through the U.S. is three weeks away, but it has already set off a frenzy of opportunism among organizers, peddlers and politicians. Officials at the African National Congress are so besieged with requests from T-shirt hustlers, record producers and concert promoters that they've started a file labeled SHARKS. In California the Mandela Visit Freedom Committee and the Southern California Chapter for the A.N.C. are jockeying over who has final say about his schedule there. And Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is preening for a summit...
...obstacles to negotiations, Buthelezi will be conspicuously absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against the interests of the poor and disenfranchised black majority...
Mandela's reduction in rank from antiapartheid god to mortal man was predictable. "When he was still in jail, there was nothing that he could do wrong," says Willie Breytenbach, head of African studies at the University of Stellenbosch. "It is almost as if there has been a decultification of Mandela." Veteran liberal Helen Suzman says Mandela has been hurt by his inability to stop black-on-black violence. "People who were unreservedly delighted at his release have become a little uneasy," she says...