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...wider appreciation of the word on which post-apartheid South Africa was founded. Ubuntu is a term that expresses that idea that each man - rich, poor, friend, enemy - is irrevocably bound to the next. Its English translations are various: "togetherness," "humanity toward others," "I am because we are." Nelson Mandela explained ubuntu as follows: "A traveler through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of ubuntu, but it'll have various aspects ... The question...
...chopping gangs of child soldiers; the elemental fighting in Congo, beginning in the mid-'90s, known as Africa's First World War, a series of conflicts that killed 4 million people. But he and the millions of young Africans like him also have the incredible leadership of Nelson Mandela and the redemptive tale of South Africa to inspire them, and in places like Ghana and Mozambique and Tanzania, the sense that the future will be brighter than the past...
...Those who deny the Holocaust in the belief that this helps the Palestinians might also learn from Nelson Mandela. Throughout his struggle against apartheid, Mandela made it his business to understand and empathize with the motives of apartheid's die-hard Afrikaner supporters. The central collective trauma that they had used to justify their system of minority rule was the terrible suffering inflicted on them by the British during the Anglo-Boer War. The resulting sense of victimization allowed the Afrikaners to focus only on their own suffering and ignore what they were inflicting on others. Mandela always praised...
DIED. P.W. Botha, 90, apartheid- era South African President whose rigid defense of racial separation overshadowed his secret 1989 talks with jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela; in Wilderness, South Africa. Known as the "Old Crocodile" for his fearsome temper, Botha made some reforms, giving Asians and mixed-race citizens--but not blacks--a limited voice in government. But he also oversaw the detention of tens of thousands of antiapartheid activists. Despite global pressure, he would not free Mandela, who was finally released in 1990, a year after F.W. de Klerk replaced Botha. And he refused to appear before the postapartheid...
...South African politician who led the country during the height of the antiapartheid struggle in the 1980s; at his home in Wilderness, South Africa. As Prime Minister and then President, Botha made reforms at the edges of the apartheid system but refused to release political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela or countenance majority black rule. In 1986, with violence spiraling, he declared a state of emergency. Three years later he was forced to step down by his own party. In a recent interview, Botha said he had no regrets about the way he led the country...