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...Kevin Davie, 40, editor of Business Times, Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa. He expects to focus on policy issues in public finance, trade and industry, petroleum economics, labor markets, agriculture, development finance and rural development...
...week before the April 1994 elections that plucked South Africa from the brink of civil war and invested Nelson Mandela as its first democratic leader, government troops opened fire on a group of journalists near Johannesburg. As South African photographer Greg Marinovich fell to the ground, wounded, American photographer James Nachtwey began pulling him to safety. Then Nachtwey noticed that another colleague, Ken Oosterbroek, had also been hit. "I laid Greg down, told him I'd be back, and as I was crawling to Ken, one of the soldiers fired," recalls Nachtwey. cnn caught what came next. As he scrambled...
...build each other") to achieve national reconciliation. The campaign, in part, is an effort by the A.N.C. to end the culture of protest among blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house. Today he pays it regularly and is even working off his debt. "Now that the country...
Last week Cyril Ramaphosa, the secretary-general of the A.N.C., was driving to a meeting in one of the impoverished townships near Johannesburg region. The road was so pockmarked it was hardly passable. "Even before building 10,000 houses," he says, "people must begin to see that something is happening to repair that road. Unless they see some demonstration of change in their lives, we are going to lose those people...
Within the hour, Mandela and aides leave for the airport to fly to his dinner at the wine estate. By the time he arrives back at his private home in Johannesburg, it is just after 11 at night. During his 18-hour day, the 76-year-old man has traveled more than 2,000 miles. He has come far from Qunu...