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...When Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison Farm last week, TIME's Peter Magubane was on hand to photograph the moment. The two men would not have the opportunity to embrace until two days later, however, when Magubane would be called to a secret location on Mandela's first day back in Johannesburg. "I wasn't taking pictures," Magubane says. "I said, 'You look quite good. You haven't changed.' It was a relief to see him out of prison." Two nights later, the two men, who have known each other nearly 40 years, shared...
Throughout his 35-year career, Magubane, 58, has been on hand for most of South Africa's historic moments. He photographed Mandela's Rivonia trial in 1964 and covered the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, which claimed the lives of 69 blacks. "I had never seen so many dead people," he recalls. Later, his editor would chide him for hanging back from the bloodshed and not taking any close-ups. "From that day," he says, "I decided I was not going to get emotionally involved, or at least not until after I have done my work...
Black leaders take exactly the opposite view. At least some members of the A.N.C. have seen during the past six months how powerless citizens have seized power all over Eastern Europe. With Mandela free, a leader not only in spirit but also in person, black South Africans could finally muster the unity to do the same. Years of protest and suppression have politicized them as never before and given rise to powerful antiapartheid coalitions. Skillfully led and adequately financed, such organizations could fill South Africa's streets and apply more pressure than the government has yet encountered. The notion that...
Such comments indicate the South African government's confidence that it has won a round with its concessions, including Mandela's release, and that Pretoria will be able to control the negotiating process. By freeing the antiapartheid movement's spiritual leader, De Klerk believes he is turning a myth back into a man. By legalizing the A.N.C., he removes its cloak of underground heroism and turns it into an ordinary political party. Both Mandela and his organization will then be forced by circumstance and expectation to make compromises. And compromises are expected to anger and disillusion segments of the black...
...Freedom for Nelson Mandela pushes South Africa into uncharted waters...