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Boston has weathered racial storms before, but until now it had never faced a proposal that would literally split the city. Next month, Boston voters in ten mostly black legislative districts will decide whether they want to secede from the city and establish a separate municipality called Mandela, after jailed South African Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie. Covering 12.5 square miles in the center of town, Mandela would be home to about a fourth of Boston's 600,000 people, including most of its blacks...
However, the newly-adopted sanctions are more than just blind punitive measures. Congress has stipulated concrete goals to be met by the South African government, such as the release of the jailed leader Nelson Mandela. In addition, the sanctions package provides $40 million in aid for Black South Africans suffering under the apartheid system...
...assembled in a stadium a few miles away for a ; second service. Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the big miners' union, explained that it was a response to the earlier ceremony, which had been organized by people "who murdered 177 of our comrades." A great cry of "Viva Winnie Mandela!" echoed through the stadium as the wife of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black leader, arrived. "We accept that the time for talking has come to an end," she told the workers. "The moment you stop digging (Pretoria's) gold and diamonds, we will be free." Union leaders have asked...
...greatest and most meaningful moments in my life." So said a deeply moved Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., after an emotional 70-minute meeting last week with Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned South African black activist. Winnie Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King...
Tutu plays a complex role in the South African freedom struggle. He does not have a huge political following, nothing comparable to that of Nelson Mandela, the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader, or Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the 6 million-member Zulu tribe. Tutu calls himself an "interim leader," saying that he would be less important if Mandela and others were released from prison. The archbishop is most popular among the small group of educated, middle-class blacks, but he has proved to be effective in calming angry crowds in the black townships...