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...Nelson Mandela aroused concern for his health a few days after embarking on a six-week, 13-nation tour when he postponed a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Although the 71-year-old activist had recently undergone surgery to remove a bladder cyst, A.N.C. officials insisted that he was in good health, while acknowledging that his schedule was "tight...
Tutu, who directs a South African refugee scholarship fund in New York City, said at a reception before the event that her government's recent agreement to negotiate with the African National Congress (ANC) and to release ANC leader Nelson Mandela was in in large part a result of international pressure...
...Nelson Mandela has been released but South Africa is still not free," said Mpho Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. The prominent archbishop, who has an honorary degree from Harvard, was elected last year as an HRAAA candidate to the Board of Overseers--the University's alumnielected governing board...
...keep the pressure on until apartheid is completely over--until people like Nelson Mandela can vote," said Woods, who until a few weeks ago was banned from his native South Africa...
...name. Situated in the Orange Free State gold-mining belt, the town of 54,000 whites and 150,000 blacks had long managed to keep a relatively peaceful if wary distance from the murderous political events that plagued other parts of South Africa. But with the release of Nelson Mandela, the legalization of the African National Congress and President F.W. de Klerk's reform initiatives, racial tensions are rippling across Welkom like an evil wind...