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Once his ballot was in the box on a schoolhouse porch in Inanda, a township soaked with the blood of battles between the A.N.C. and Inkatha, Mandela very quickly stepped into his new role as leader of the nation -- all the nation. "Our message," he said, "is that the basic needs of the masses of the people must be addressed. These are our priorities." At the same time, he had words of reassurance for whites. "We are concerned about giving confidence and security to those who are worried that by these changes they are going to be in a disadvantaged...
...PAYS THE BILL? Though the A.N.C. has cast off most of its earlier Marxist affection for planned economies, it does have a five-year plan to address what Mandela refers to as "the basic needs of the masses." It is a 147-page document called "The R.D.P: The Reconstruction and Development Program," a blueprint for reorganizing and democratizing the society. At its heart is an $11 billion economic-development program that promises to provide employment and job training for 2.5 million people in public-works projects. It aims at putting up a million new houses, providing a million others with...
...credit, the A.N.C. is cautious about adding to the nation's debt burden. Thabo Mbeki, who will probably be First Deputy President and heir apparent to Mandela, said in an interview with TIME last week that the incoming government has two immediate goals. First, it intends to write a budget that will reassure the international financial community that the A.N.C. is not going to borrow heavily. Second, it hopes to round up early commitments of aid money from friendly governments. "It will be very good if we can generate a billion dollars from around the world," Mbeki said, "that...
Under the interim constitution, any of the 19 parties on the ballot that receives at least 5% of the vote is entitled to a seat in the new Cabinet. In any case, as one of his confidence-building measures, Mandela intends to keep present Minister of Finance Derek Keys and Central Bank director Chris Stals in his government of national unity. Keys is an optimist about the transition. "From an economic point of view," he says, "I think it is going to work very well." Even so, Keys is worried that the A.N.C. development plan was put together...
FAULT LINES. Once Mandela's Cabinet is announced, the unity government is likely to show significant lines of stress. It will probably include Communist Party chairman Joe Slovo -- an interesting prospect for white officials who long used the fear of communist encirclement to justify apartheid policies. No fewer than 16 of the top 50 names on the A.N.C. parliamentary election list are members of the Communist Party. While they have forsworn Stalinism, Slovo still argues that "only under socialism could you have a combination of political and economic democracy...