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...committee appointed by the mayor. While the new committee, like the old, includes minority representatives, residents have complained that the appointed board is accountable only to the mayor, while the elected committee had to answer to neighborhood voters. Bids to secede and to create a separate city named Mandela, after South Africa's Nelson Mandela, were defeated by ratios...
...your attention. The times that DOS does try to espouse ideas with some depth the lyrics only slide along the surface of issues, never delving into them. In "Change" they rap "Nelson is out/ Who would believe those lyrics woulda come out." But instead of discussing the importance of Mandela, DOS simply concludes, "It can be solved if it can evolve...
...delegations that opened formal negotiations on a new, nonracial constitution for the country. As the 228 black, white, Indian and mixed-race politicians gathered for the first session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa at a conference center near Johannesburg, African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela said the challenge they faced was "to unshackle ourselves from the past and build anew...
...Even if Mandela and De Klerk bridge their differences on how to get started, another broad area of disagreement lies ahead. The A.N.C. wants the new constitution to provide for majority rule and a strong, centralized government. The National Party is holding out for a collective three- or five- person presidency, a decentralized federal system and what amounts to a veto for whites over major legislation...
...last 12 months, though, the South African government has released anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela after 27 years of imprisonment, lifted the ban on the African National Congress and repealed several major apartheid laws, including the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the Separate Amenities Act, which segregated all public facilities...