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...security around President-elect Nelson Mandela last week neatly captured the country's new mood: his African National Congress bodyguards mixed easily with his white, Afrikaans-speaking government agents, exchanging black-power handshakes and chatting amiably. Three days before his inauguration, Mandela talked in Cape Town with Time deputy managing editor John Stacks, Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod and correspondent Peter Hawthorne...
...Mandela: Our security forces are at present overstretched. But the fact that ((Zulu leader Mangosuthu)) Buthelezi is now participating ((in the government)) might make it unnecessary to have such large concentrations of security forces in Natal. Therefore we might have a unit available. There are many problems facing Africa, so I would be well disposed to assisting, provided I feel confident that the situation in this country is normal...
...Mandela: This is something we would like to do. But at the same time we don't want to be assertive and remind Africa of the days of apartheid. We would like to do things on a basis of equality with other African states and consult them on what role we should play. Leave it to them to say, "Look, we want you to play this role on this particular issue." We have a problem in that we have to improve our image as projected during the days of apartheid. We have to be very, very careful not to create...
...Mandela: Mr. De Klerk was the first to telephone me to express his concern about the fact that we were on the verge of reaching a ((two-thirds)) majority. Mr. De Klerk was very much concerned. I didn't want him to be concerned. Therefore to have a two-thirds majority, which would have enabled us to do what we like, would have raised tensions in a situation where there should be normality, where people should be sure they are not just going to be used as rubber stamps. That is why I was relieved...
...enrich this week's cover stories with additional insights into Mandela, we turned to contributor Richard Stengel. He too is a veteran observer of South Africa, having published the 1990 book January Sun, an account of a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. "I chose Brits," he says, "because I thought the real story of South Africa was in the countryside, not the cities." Stengel, who is helping Mandela edit his memoirs, admires the man's self-deprecating sense of humor. "As Mandela approached the polls last week," Stengel recalls...