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...mere hour's drive separates the prison farm where Nelson Mandela is being held and State President P.W. Botha's white-pillared residence in Cape Town. But the political distance between those two men has always seemed unbridgeable. They have personified the country's racial stalemate: Mandela, who turns 71 this week, insisted that he would make no deals with the white government while he remained a prisoner; Botha, 73, vowed that he would never free the symbolic leader of the nation's black majority unless Mandela forswore the use of violence...
...astonishment of black and white South Africans, the government disclosed last week that the chasm may not be as impossibly wide as once thought. In his 27th year of imprisonment, serving a life sentence for sabotage, Mandela accepted an invitation from Botha to meet face to face for the first time. The two adversaries spent 45 minutes on July 5 talking "in a pleasant spirit" and sipping tea. It was not a negotiation, said Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee, who also participated, but the two foes confirmed "their support for peaceful development in South Africa." By agreeing to that, Mandela seemed...
...surreal and oxymoronic ring. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, better known as a patron of terrorism than a benefactor of humanitarian causes, has unaccountably set up a Swiss foundation to bestow an annual award on a Third World figure in the forefront of "liberation struggles." Last week Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African leader, was named the first recipient of the prize and the $250,000 that goes with...
Gaddafi, who put $10 million in trust to fund the award, had no say in choosing the winner. Swiss Socialist Deputy Jean Ziegler, a member of the jury that selected Mandela, said "ironclad guarantees" assured that Tripoli's influence would not be felt in Geneva. Nonetheless, human rights activists were clearly worried about the new philanthropist. Said an official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: "If the jury would consider people like Salman Rushdie, it would give more credibility to its independence...
After conferring with her husband at Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town last week, Mandela canceled a planned press conference. Three days later, Mandela reportedly agreed to remove the bodyguards from her home. But the decision left unexplained whether she had been oblivious to the misdeeds of her football team or had encouraged them. Through most of her husband's 26- year imprisonment, Winnie Mandela seemed a true heroine, undiminished by loneliness, police harassment, detention and banishment. Now, even to old friends, she is a mystery...