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Nelson Mandela?s miracle will look easy compared with the feat being attempted by his successor. South Africa?s elder statesman bowed out of the presidency Wednesday as his hand-picked heir, Thabo Mbeki, was inaugurated as head of a state that has abolished apartheid but not yet overcome its legacy. Offering a sober assessment of the dramatic social inequalities that persist in post-apartheid South Africa, Mbeki dedicated his government to overcoming unemployment, hunger, poverty and crime. "The full meaning of liberation will not be realized until our people are freed from the dehumanizing legacy of deprivation we inherited...
...look back at the history of activism at Harvard--not just to University Hall but also to anti-apartheid in the '80s--to know that we're not just isolated, and we're part of a continuing tradition," Hennefeld says...
Much of the ANC?s goodwill has derived from Mandela?s inspirational persona. But the 80-year-old patriarch?s retirement at the pinnacle of his achievement leaves a new generation of leaders to face the complex challenge of correcting the dramatic inequalities of wealth and power bequeathed by apartheid, imbalances that have resulted in growing unemployment and burgeoning violence. Mandela is almost certain to be replaced as president by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, 56, who has effectively run the government since being anointed by Mandela as his successor two years ago. Although the former ANC diplomat?s competence...
...those are America's 21st century foes, Gore has been training for decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came...
Painter Paul Stopforth's work depicts the suffering that resulted from the South African policy of apartheid. He has had pieces featured in the Creiger Dane Gallery in Boston; the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Market Gallery, and Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg; and Gallerie Sandoz in Paris...