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...Cape Town last week, motorcycle outriders escorted President Nelson Mandela to Parliament, where a red carpet ribboned down the granite steps. Leaving his limousine, Mandela was greeted by a navy honor guard in spotless whites. Air force jets flew overhead, and a 21-gun salute rang out from nearby Signal Hill. Beginning his second year in office, Mandela had arrived to open a new session of Parliament, and the spectacle suited the occasion--to all who remember apartheid, the very existence of a Mandela administration in South Africa is still amazing...
...speech Mandela did not dwell on how far the country has come, however, but rather on how far it has to go. Corruption, crime, violence and strikes are threatening to get out of hand. ``The battle against the forces of anarchy and chaos,'' the President declared, ``has been joined.'' When it comes to ``rooting out corruption,'' he said, ``we will deal firmly and unequivocally with whoever may be involved...
...succeed, the government will have to find ways to advance the rights of the disinherited blacks without touching off the latent anger of die-hard whites. Officials say they hope to avoid giving the impression that they are doing to the whites what whites did to blacks under apartheid: Mandela has pledged publicly that the new law will "do nothing of the sort." While many claims for land taken by the government, and then leased or sold to whites, will be easy to settle, the government insists that in no case will there be expropriations of land without proper compensation...
Aided by human-rights organizations, in 1989 the Pedis began legal action to reclaim their land. Mandela's government broke through years of wrangling, and early this month the first Doornkop families returned to their traditional home. More are going back every day, and Kalushi Kalushi, who is in charge of homecoming arrangements, predicts they will number 20,000 by early next year. He also expects the settlement to have electricity by then. "You can't believe what it was like to come home," says Kalushi, a librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. "When we stood under...
...dispossession of the country's black farmers and the near elimination of black agriculture began long before the National Party turned apartheid into a legal code. Mandela's government will almost certainly need more than its planned five years to make significant progress in reversing this historic injustice, much less bring all blacks the jobs, houses, schools and hospitals he vowed to provide a year ago. Yet the early indications of goodwill toward men are providing a glimmer of cheer for many South Africans this year...