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That defiant declaration by Nelson Mandela, the black political leader who has been imprisoned for the past 17 years, has become an underground credo in South Africa ever since it was smuggled out of the Robben Island prison. Last week Mandela's grim prophecy seemed to be coming true even sooner and more viciously than expected. In both black and "colored" (mixed-race) townships-first in Soweto and then in Elsies River near Cape Town-crowds of rioting youths clashed with police on three successive nights. Barrages of stone throwing were answered with baton charges, volleys of tear...
...minority rule. South African leaders now face mounting pressure both from within and without to dismantle apartheid and give the country's 19 million blacks a share of political power. One sign of the assertive new black mood is a nationwide campaign to free jailed Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela, president of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). Even some progovernment Afrikaans newspapers and business leaders have joined with blacks in arguing that the government must negotiate with Mandela and other influential militants "before it is too late...
Steadfastly refusing to treat with Mandela, whom he calls an "arch-Marxist," South Africa's Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha nonetheless began advising his countrymen to "adapt or die" even before Mugabe's landslide victory. He endorsed certain racial reforms in the labor field and began pushing for a constitutional revision that would give nonwhites some limited political voice. But such gestures fall far short of black demands, and Botha is reluctant to press for more substantial changes in the face of strong opposition from his National Party's right wing...
...only for a limited franchise for blacks, based on criteria like property or education--in a country where blacks cannot own the land their houses stand on, and where the black schools are hardly worth attending. (I wonder whether Harvard would ever grant an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela, the great black South African who spoke out for freedom. It seems unlikely; Mandela could not come to receive the degree in person, anyway, because--like so many South Africans, black and white, who too strongly have denounced apartheid--he has been in prison for 15 years.) Apartheid's supporters...
...salary as a leader of the bantustan Kwazulu. Nominally he has a lot of supporters, but I think his position is eroding every day. He's in the position [Bishop Abel] Muzerewa was in Rhodesia a year ago. Open that society up, and let them all talk freely--let Mandela come off Robben Island prison tomorrow and say that Buthelezi is a no-no, which he would--and Buthelezi's support would melt like the snow in summer...