Word: capes
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...local time on Sunday, Feb. 11, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison Farm near Cape Town -- free at last. It was, said an announcer for the official South African Broadcasting Corp., "the moment that a majority of South Africans, and the world, have been waiting...
State President F.W. de Klerk was still delivering his opening-day speech before Parliament when an antiapartheid leader interrupted a protest rally four blocks away to deliver "a very important message." Some 3,000 demonstrators, massed in searing sunshine across from the Cape Town city hall, fell silent as she announced, "The A.N.C. has been unbanned." The gathering seemed stunned at the news that the African National Congress, the leading force in the fight against apartheid, outlawed and in exile since 1960, would once again be a legal participant in the nation's politics. Then someone shouted, "Amandla!" (power...
...whole loaf, but De Klerk's speech delivered more than most veteran black leaders had expected. Popo Molefe, Secretary-General of the United Democratic Front, the largest domestic antiapartheid coalition, told the cheering Cape Town crowd that of all the white leaders, "De Klerk has taken the boldest step and is the most courageous." Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate, said the speech "has certainly taken my breath away," and his fellow campaigner, the Rev. Allan Boesak, was surprised "that he met so many of the demands...
With expectations growing daily, antiapartheid leaders will be listening closely this Friday when De Klerk delivers his maiden state of the nation address to the opening session of Parliament in Cape Town. They want the President to outline a timetable for negotiations and to meet the main conditions blacks have laid down for participation: Mandela's release, an end to the 1986 state of emergency and the lifting of bans on antiapartheid organizations...
Mandela's busy life at Victor Verster contrasts sharply with the years of hard labor he endured on Robben Island, a penal colony across from Cape Town Harbor where he was incarcerated for nearly two decades. For the first ten years he swung a pickax in a limestone quarry, breaking boulders into gravel. But the harsh punishment only strengthened his resolve, and he directed his anger into a crusade for better prison conditions. "To us," says Steve Tshwete, an A.N.C. guerrilla leader imprisoned for 15 years, "he represented the correctness of our cause and the inevitability of our victory...