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...Mandela pushed an economic agenda of privatization and free market reform, the effects of apartheid have persisted. According to a recent government report, the five years between 1996 and 2001 have seen the average income for South African blacks decrease by 17 percent as the average income for whites increased by just as much...
...addition to his work on Democratic presidential campaigns, Greenberg worked for scores of other domestic campaigns and in the Clinton White House. He has served as a polling guru and political adviser to world leaders such as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former South African President Nelson Mandela, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder...
TIME: Are you concerned that there is no evident President, no Karzai or Mandela...
This summer, Stopforth hopes to spend two weeks working on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held during his incarceration. Because his work is so tied to a specific place, Stopforth has found that his work is sometimes inaccessible. “It is often not that easy for Americans to reference. I am something of an outsider for art in America or art in Boston,” he says. “As an exile or an immigrant, that is something that one constantly has to work with...
...poor and not have your possibilities revealed to you. So I feel like if I can do that for as many young girls as I can reach, I would have served part of my purpose here. WHY SOUTH AFRICA? I am drawn to South Africa because of Nelson Mandela, who has become a personal friend, and my love of the country. I think that for every act of generosity in the world, regardless of where it is given--in Mississippi, Montana or Mozambique--it's O.K., because it's spreading that kind of energy out into the world...