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...polling, hundreds were dying in clashes between Mandela's African National Congress and its Zulu rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party. On election eve, bombs set by white extremists shook Johannesburg. Civil war seemed all too possible. Yet one year later, blacks and whites feel released from a 350-year-old burden. "I am excited, relieved," says Phambili Gama, a black engineer in Johannesburg. "Psychologically we feel liberated, even if many economic changes are still to be realized." Beverley Dalton, a white Cape Town public relations executive, puts it more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone...
...finger at me." On the line, Mandela is respectful and speaks to Botha in Afrikaans. The conversation is off the record. After hanging up, Mandela calls his two junior partners in the government of national unity, Botha's successor, F.W. de Klerk, and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, and solicits their opinions on Botha's views...
...face of danger, were arrested numerous times, but never quit. They literally were willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believed in," says American photojournalist James Nachtwey, who frequently worked with Carter and his friends. By 1990, civil war was raging between Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. For whites, it became potentially fatal to work the townships alone. To diminish the dangers, Carter hooked up with three friends -- Ken Oosterbroek of the Star and free-lancers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva -- and they began moving through Soweto and Tokoza at dawn. If a murderous gang...
...press gallery, "new ground is - being broken." This has included actual applause in response to speeches -- no longer only a dignified "Hear, hear" (in Afrikaans, Hoor, hoor) -- and the occasional ululation, if not from the floor, then from the public gallery. M.P. Jurie Mentz, a white member of the Inkatha Freedom Party team, delivered his maiden speech entirely in Zulu, and the I.F.P. leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, followed him in impeccable English...
Mandela intends to purge the officers and covert units inside the white-led national police force who have directed assassinations against A.N.C. members and supporters and have supplied Inkatha fighters with weapons. "You've got to find the criminals," Mbeki says. "The threat to democracy does not end with the effort to disrupt the elections. Some of them will take up guns and place bombs." At least one police officer and one reservist were among the 33 whites arrested last week as suspects in terrorist bombings...