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Magubane's touching photograph of Mandela hugging a grandchild appears in this week's issue. But as far as Mandela is concerned, the most important picture Magubane took last week is a small black-and-white head shot. Informed that Mandela wanted to apply for a passport in case he was called to African National Congress headquarters in Zambia, Magubane obliged by shooting a roll of black-and-white film and having it developed overnight. The next day Mandela's lawyer showed up to take Magubane's photographs to the passport office in Johannesburg...
Jesse Jackson is one black leader who over the years has consistently preached self-help. Now he warns, "Our failure to become introspective and responsible takes away our moral authority." Nelson Mandela worked the same vein last week: "All students must return to school and learn." The lesson of Glory, proceeding out of black history, is that blacks are not powerless in the face of racism or poverty. The battles fought and won by earlier generations of blacks were immensely more difficult than those that face most blacks today...
Hero. Unifier. Healer. Savior. Could any one man -- let alone one who has been cut off from the flow of daily life for more than 27 years -- live up to such billing? Nelson Mandela did not disappoint last week as he walked out of 10,000 days in prison right into the thick of South African politics...
With commanding dignity and self-confidence, Mandela returned to South African life last week and by his very presence changed the country's political landscape. No longer were questions of South Africa's future hung up on the issue of Mandela's release. Now, all parties could begin the still more difficult task of establishing a new political system. For Mandela, shoved in front of international cameras before his eyes could even adjust to the glare of a world he has not seen since 1962, the challenge will be to unite the fractious and sometimes violent elements of the black...
Through the week, Mandela demonstrated an acute sensitivity to the many different audiences he now has to satisfy. Inevitably, his every word was scrutinized, and each pronouncement he made brought both cheers and catcalls. His initial speech on the steps of Cape Town's city hall seemed designed to signal that years of imprisonment had not taken the fight out of Mandela. "Now is the time to intensify the struggle," he exhorted. While he also stated that "there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle," his words alarmed some whites, who were particularly discomfited by Mandela...