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...Mandela intends to purge the officers and covert units inside the white-led national police force who have directed assassinations against A.N.C. members and supporters and have supplied Inkatha fighters with weapons. "You've got to find the criminals," Mbeki says. "The threat to democracy does not end with the effort to disrupt the elections. Some of them will take up guns and place bombs." At least one police officer and one reservist were among the 33 whites arrested last week as suspects in terrorist bombings...
...steps toward the executive offices in Pretoria's imposing Union Buildings, Mandela is preaching what amounts to a sermon of reassurance and inclusion. He stresses over and over that all the minorities -- 5 million whites, 3.5 million coloreds and 1 million Asians -- will be valued for their contributions and have nothing to fear from his government. He says not only that whites should stay, but also that those who left in recent years should come back and help rebuild. "They have knowledge, skills and expertise," he says. "We are going to need them. We are going to rely on them...
...Mandela's long walk to freedom has ended in a jubilant, triumphant election week and the liberation he has worked 50 years to achieve. But his second struggle is just beginning. He now shoulders the mantle of the state, and while he will be praised for the things it achieves, he will be held responsible for everything it does not do for the people who expect the most. His plans may yet fail and his hopes collapse. But with his message of reconciliation and the euphoric support of the great majority of his countrymen last week, he was clearly...
...exciting assignment for any reporter. In the case of South Africa, last week's unprecedented all-race voting created a united land out of bitterly divided fragments, and for Scott MacLeod, TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, it represented the high point of nearly five years of covering Nelson Mandela's journey from prisoner to President. "Most conflict stories we cover have tragic endings," observes MacLeod, "but what has made this a thrilling time to me is witnessing the remarkable determination here to heal divisions and achieve reconciliation...
MacLeod was outside Viktor Verster Prison in 1990 when Mandela walked out to freedom, clenched fist raised high. Last December he flew with him to Oslo when Mandela accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Those were great public moments, but McLeod has some private memories too. "On a campaign trip he stopped at a home for disabled children. Some kids were singing, and instead of moving on, he went into their classroom and joined them in the song. Before he left, he singled out a little black girl and bowed so low that he could softly bump her forehead with...