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MAFIKENG, South Africa: Nelson Mandela formally handed over control of his party Wednesday to his designated heir, Thabo Mbeki, amidst media reports that the African National Congress was taking a harder line towards South Africa's privileged white minority. But Mbeki's talk of "completing the revolution" and "continuing the struggle" should be read less as signaling any intention of attacking domestic and foreign business interests - which he sees as all-important components of the country's efforts to generate economic growth - than as the opening volleys of the party's 1999 election campaign...
...continued rank-and-file enthusiasm for the populist Winnie Mandela has sounded a warning to the party?s leadership: The impoverished majority have yet to see tangible benefits from the ANC?s moderate economic policy. To ensure their support at the polls, the party is likely to reclaim the banner of liberation by intensifying rhetorical attacks on white economic privilege. But these attacks are unlikely to translate into a policy shift...
...Militant Mandela Passes Torch The outgoing ANC leader tells whites: no more free rides. What's next for South Africa...
...WINNIE MANDELA Talk about an Iron Lady. "Never apologize, never explain" is a bad policy. Plus, lose the jewelry...
Even if she loses, Madikizela-Mandela is still a Member of Parliament and continues to embarrass the A.N.C. with attacks on the government's integrity and its failure to deliver what the masses want. The Truth Commission hearing is not a trial, but it could find her responsible for what a leading witness, Methodist Bishop Peter Storey, called "a ruthless abuse of power." Her expulsion from the A.N.C. could follow. But even then, there will be many who believe that Madikizela-Mandela's transgressions were committed in the struggle against apartheid and that she should be praised, not pilloried...