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...home, Mandela will take out his well-thumbed Filofax, find a number, and telephone a colleague to discuss an issue. However, he is not a man who is mired in details. Although Mandela did not even see a television until the 1970s, he understands the importance of mass-media images, and will make gestures of large symbolic content, as when he grasped De Klerk's hand at the end of their recent debate and said he would be proud to work with his opponent -- a man he has publicly labeled untrustworthy. He is gracious, amiable, gentlemanly, ever the host, always...
...Even as Mandela voted last week and dutifully smiled in all directions for the photographers, his mind seemed both on the past and on the future; he thought back to his fallen comrades who did not live to share his victory and ahead to how he would contrive to forge one nation out of a divided land. His % moment of triumph gratifies him but comes with unsought consequences. While in jail, Mandela was surrounded by armed guards who never took their eyes off him. Now, wherever Mandela goes he is surrounded by armed guards who never take their eyes...
After more than three centuries of white domination, South Africans of every race cast ballots for the first time to select a postapartheid government. Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress party were expected to win handily. The vote was not without hitches. In Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, the line of eager voters grew to more than 4,000 people, while in some remote areas, government helicopters had to fly in thousands of extra ballots. But the chaos and violence that threatened to overwhelm the process early in the week had largely subsided by Thursday, as government...
...awesome spectacle of transformation, Nelson Mandela and the black majority inherit the government...
...Legend as Leader: How will Mandela rule...