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...year ago this time, Nelson Mandela was standing amid a roar of adulation in Oslo as he received the Nobel Peace Prize, symbolizing the triumph of black African rights in his native land. Last week he had only words of hard truth for 2,000 blacks, many of them barefoot and clad in tatters, gathered at a soccer field among the shacks of Orange Farm, a township in the southern Transvaal. Seven months into his term as President of South Africa, the good times he promised have barely begun. "Don't expect us to do miracles," he told the crowd...
...transformations Mandela's government of national unity has tried so far, the return of blacks to the land, and of land to the blacks, is potentially the most volatile. Between 1960 and 1990 the government forced 3.5 million people from their homes, in most cases clearing the way for whites to move...
...grossly unbalanced partitioning of the country is being reversed. Last month Mandela signed the Restitution of Land Rights Bill, which invites displaced blacks to file for the return of their former holdings. It also establishes a Land Claims Court to sort out the disputes that will inevitably arise. The bill, predicted Minister of Land Affairs Derek Hanekom, will help heal some of the country's wounds. More than that, he says, "it answers the cry for justice." Mandela and his ministers have tentatively set a goal of redistributing up to 30% of the nation's agricultural land over the next...
Apartheid no longer exists, a new constitution is in effect, and Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, Gordimer's political party, is president...
Stengel found Mandela to be full of contradictions -- guarded yet outgoing, sophisticated yet unworldly. "The duality surprised me," says Stengel, "but some of the naivete comes from the fact that he was away for 27 years." Stengel was also impressed with Mandela's sharp memory. "He is both calendar and camera: he can picture and re-create a scene in his mind...