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...Arty Nelson...
There is something uplifting in reading a success story, but what is to be gained from reading an anti-success story? Like watching a balloon deflate and sink slowly to the ground, reading Arty Nelson's first novel Technicolor Pulp is comforting, unthreatening and a slightly amusing way to pass...
Sources tell TIME that the estranged wife of South African President Nelson Mandela is about to step down from his cabinet because she is suspected of taking bribes. TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne says Winnie Mandela is expected to step aside this weekend, on a temporary basis, while police investigate whether she was paid $21,000 to secure government contracts for a construction company. Hawthorne also says the African National Congress is planning to remove Mrs. Mandela as president of its Women's League. President Mandela today reaffirmed his commitment to rooting out corruption, even if that means sacking...
South African police raided Winnie Mandela's Soweto home today and hauled out several cardboard boxes of evidence as part of a bribery investigation. The government minister and estranged wife of President Nelson Mandela was out of the country on a work-related trip as authorities pursued allegations that she received $21,000 in bribes and was slated for thousands more in monthly payments for helping a firm secure three government construction contracts. The offices of Mrs. Mandela's anti-poverty program and the homes of other suspects also were searched. In addition, TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne reports...
...Cape Town last week, motorcycle outriders escorted President Nelson Mandela to Parliament, where a red carpet ribboned down the granite steps. Leaving his limousine, Mandela was greeted by a navy honor guard in spotless whites. Air force jets flew overhead, and a 21-gun salute rang out from nearby Signal Hill. Beginning his second year in office, Mandela had arrived to open a new session of Parliament, and the spectacle suited the occasion--to all who remember apartheid, the very existence of a Mandela administration in South Africa is still amazing...