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...JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: President Nelson Mandela was given a divorce today, ending a 38-year marriage which had survived his 27 year imprisonment. In granting the divorce, the court ruled that wife Winnie had failed to counter charges of adultery. On the first day of the divorce proceedings, the leader of the African National Congress told the packed courtroom that he had wished to resolve his marital problems in the privacy of their bedroom, "honorably and quietly, without washing our dirty linen in public." But Mandela said that since his release from prison, his wife had never even entered...
...JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: President Nelson Mandela told a divorce court today what had been rumored for years -- that wife Winnie Mandela had cheated on him during his 27-year imprisonment. On the first day of the divorce proceedings, the leader of the African National Congress told the packed courtroom that he had wished to resolve his marital problems in the privacy of their bedroom, "honorably and quietly, without washing our dirty linen in public." But Mandela said that since his release from prison, his wife had never even entered his bedroom while he was awake. Winnie Mandela has refused...
...Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, was on the hustings, attempting to salvage his credibility as a peacemaker. As well he might. After the I.R.A. declared its cease-fire in August 1994, it was Adams who traipsed the world, telling the likes of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg and Bill Clinton in Washington that violence had been banished from Ulster politics. The cease-fire, he insisted, was "complete." Peace talks could begin without the fear of I.R.A. guns under the table. Now the bombing in London has contradicted all that and raised troublesome questions. Does Adams approve...
...remarkably stable, although there are a couple of hiccups now and then in race relations," Hawthorne says. Mandela's government is challenged with extending the country's infrastructure from modern white cities to poor black settlements and townships like Soweto, where poor blacks can see the lights of Johannesburg from the stoops of their unheated, unlit shacks. But in the past two years the government has developed a workable administrative infrastructure to deliver necessary services. Hawthorne notes: "The orderly ceremony in Parliament reflects the way the country has been able to accomplish this remarkable transformation. There's no doubt that...
...JOHANNESBURG: Despite the fact that Louis Farrakhan was visiting South Africa over the weekend, Hawthorne reports that the American Muslim's meeting with Nelson Mandela "came and went with barely a flurry of interest. People in Soweto wouldn't be able to tell you who Farrakhan is." Mandela met with the controversial Farrakhan for an hour, but took pains to explain that it did not signify an acceptance of the American's beliefs...