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...predict South Africa will grow so strong that one day it will apply sanctions to American apartheid...I am happy Mandela is in the driver's seat there, even as black people here remain road kill...I can see the day coming when the president of south Africa will declare the racial condition of the United States, the world's richest nation, as evil, immoral and un-Christian." Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson...
...nation that for so long was associated with despotism and racism has finally held elections that allow all people, black and white, the right to vote. Though the official numbers are not yet in, Nelson Mandela appears likely to be the clear victor. His ascension to the presidency of South Africa would be an eloquent symbol for the victory of democracy in his country: he from prisoner to leader, the country from oligarchy to democracy...
...would be too frightened to exercise their hard-won right to vote -- and the country might dissolve into full-scale rebellion, shattering hopes of building a just nation. More than 20,000 citizens have died in the past 10 years, most of them in the rivalry between Inkatha and Mandela's African National Congress...
...million eligible voters -- 16.2 million of them blacks enfranchised for the first time -- are expected to turn out at the polls. The African National Congress will surely win, and when the votes are tallied this week, the black majority National Assembly will convene in Cape Town to name Mandela President...
...NELSON MANDELA...