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After months of political wrangling and escalating violence, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said his party has provisionally registered for South Africa's April 26-28 elections. In return, African National Congress president Nelson Mandela agreed to submit to international arbitration the two parties' deep differences over the country's constitution...
...More than half called him a good role model for black youth. Only a fifth thought him anti-Semitic. When asked to name "the most important black leader today," 9% of those polled volunteered his name -- more than for anyone except Jackson and three times as many as Nelson Mandela. To some extent, admittedly, these results reflect a lack of broad-based, high-profile black leaders. But that vacuum only makes Farrakhan more important, and his hateful words more potent...
...leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party turned down a last-minute package of concessions from African National Congress president Nelson Mandela intended to avert a threatened boycott of the historic election set for April 26-28. Mandela eased up on A.N.C. demands for strong central authority by offering provincial governments more autonomy. In Natal province, gunmen attacked A.N.C. supporters, killing...
Amid the competition for black votes, says campaign coordinator Ketso Gordhan, "for the A.N.C. this election is not about how sophisticated your message is but about mobilization." Mandela is the first to warn his voters against complacency. The "greatest danger," he tells the crowds, comes from "members of the A.N.C. themselves." Surveying the bewildered faces before him, he continues, "If we believe we have already won the election, a large number of people who support us may prefer to remain in their homes." Deputy campaign chief Patrick Lekota puts the warning in everyday terms. "People support us," he says...
With only the margin of his victory in doubt, Mandela is cautioning his voters not to expect too much too soon. The A.N.C.'s election platform promises to provide jobs, education and housing. But impoverished black citizens will not become employed homeowners "driving a Mercedes" the day after the election, Mandela tells them. What they can expect after April 29, he vows, is a government that will address their needs, ignored for so long...