Word: mandelas
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...This may be the major inconsistency in Huntington's theory. Clearly, since Blacks have never been allowed to vote, no one will know until after some sort of negotiations occur whether or not Blacks will follow a given leader. Huntington neglects to mention in his discussion that Mandela remains the consistent winner of all popularity polls among South African Blacks. See Mark Orkin, Disinvestment, the Struggle and the Future: What Black South Africans Really Think (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1986), p. 35. Huntington does not, incidentally, mention 11. Shula Marks, The Ambiguities of Dependence: Class, Nationalism and the State in Twentieth...
Apartheid may shadow these productions as it did HBO's groundbreaking Mandela. It was shot last fall in Zimbabwe, where armed soldiers guarded the set. (The local office of the exiled African National Congress had been bombed six months before.) When curious farmworkers gathered around and learned that a movie about Mandela was being shot, they waved their arms and shouted, "Man-de-la! Man-de-la!" Recalls Woodard: "Zimbabwe is newly free and glistening with hope. Having South African refugees all around us gave the script new urgency...
...Winnie Mandela, unbowed in the prolonged battle she wages in her husband's name against racial repression, was an elusive presence to the filmmakers. Since her husband was jailed, she has been restricted, held in solitary confinement and banned. Scriptwriter Ronald Harwood arranged to interview her in the Orange Free State, where she had been forced to move, but when Winnie drove up to the meeting place where Harwood was waiting, she reversed suddenly, then accelerated away. He never found...
...that. The movie is preachy and laden with speeches that hobble the narrative. Intricate political positions are drawn with a numbing oversimplification. All South African policemen are sadistic slobs with warty faces. Nelson is an immaculate martyr, always stoic. Winnie is a saint. But for all its flaws, Mandela does dramatize a country's deadly turmoil. "South Africa has been locked off for so long," says Woodard. "I'm hoping for other movies. Mandela is just one star in a huge black...
Hollywood is finding drama in South Africa' s racial turmoil, as a film about Black Leaders Nelson and Winnie Mandela shows...