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...skin, were abolished. The armed services became the South African National Defense Force, and will begin to absorb former enemies from guerrilla armies like the A.N.C.'s Spear of the Nation. Things were changing so fast, a South African Broadcasting Corp. interviewer lost track of who was President, Nelson Mandela, who will be sworn in next week, or F.W. de Klerk, the incumbent. He turned from talking with De Klerk to sign off, saying, "Well, there's State . . . former State Pres . . . well, State President de Klerk, Mr. de Klerk . . . not former...
...last entry in the race, the Inkatha Freedom Party, and had to be updated with paste-on stickers; to ensure fairness, Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi demanded a fourth day of voting. While exasperated thousands waited, election workers gave puzzled first timers impromptu lessons in how to mark a ballot. Mandela said some of the ballot shortages looked like outright "sabotage," and he too called for another day of polling. At last the election officials requested and got an extension of the voting, originally scheduled to end Thursday, into Friday in several parts of the country...
...victors must govern the country they have won. It is up to Mandela and his comrades to set the course. They must finish the task of dismantling the apartheid structures, reforming bureaucracies and constructing a unified, multiracial South Africa. "We are starting a new era," said Mandela, after casting his vote outside Durban, "of hope, of reconciliation, of nation building...
...their plan that matters now. The A.N.C. will be judged primarily on its handling of the national economy, because if that collapses, political and social reforms have little chance of growing. The A.N.C. will succeed only if it can, in the current township phrase, deliver the goods. If Mandela and his colleagues fail to show they are making progress, the long- ! suffering black majority may turn against them and follow other, more radical leaders who promise more...
Some of South Africa's whites fear that their black fellow citizens will visit on them the same codified cruelty they inflicted on the blacks. "Those who have followed our policy generally," Mandela insisted, "will dismiss those rumors without hesitation." No doubt some of the 30 million blacks would savor a taste of revenge, but for now they are a small minority...