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...life sentence since 1964, might soon be released and deported to Lusaka, Zambia, where the A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital in Cape Town to his cell in Pollsmoor Prison. State President P.W. Botha tried to dispel the rumors, saying that "no decision has been taken" on Mandela's future. At week's end, authorities announced that Mandela had been returned to the prison outside Cape Town...
...deaths of more than 850 South Africans, almost all of them nonwhite. His words cannot be legally published in the South African press. Only a few intimates even know what he looks like now; he has not been photographed since 1965. Yet from his cell in Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town, Nelson Mandela, 67, head of the outlawed African National Congress, has become an almost messianic figure, incarnating the aspirations of South Africa's 23.9 million blacks...
From the teeming settlements of the Eastern Cape to the sprawling townships around Johannesburg and on to the outskirts of Cape Town, angry blacks have invoked Mandela's name in demanding an end to the government policies of racial separation. The U.S., Britain, France and scores of other governments have called for Mandela's release as a sign that the white minority government is serious about negotiating with the black majority. Yet in February, when State President P.W. Botha offered to free him if he would forswear political violence, Mandela refused, saying, "Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter...
...simple answer, says Niall FitzGerald, chairman of British news agency Reuters and a passionate backer of a new deal for Africa, is morality. "The rich world has brought its gifts to Africa: first exploitation and then indifference," he said at the World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town earlier this month. "There is across the world a new awareness of the moral reprehensibility of what we have allowed to happen in Africa." There is also self-interest. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa points out that disease and despair will hurt the rich world by driving illegal immigration...
Mention South Africa's wine regions and many people instinctively think of Stellenbosch, a half-hour drive east of Cape Town. But though it enjoys international celebrity, Stellenbosch produces just 11% of the country's wines?meaning that there are a great deal more wine districts to be discovered. Generating lots of buzz among oenophiles at the moment is Walker Bay, a relatively new wine-growing area a couple of hundred kilometers to the south. At harvest time, this coastal wine ward enjoys milder temperatures, thanks to the sea breezes produced by the Atlantic's cold Benguela current. The result...