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Tutu, who directs a South African refugee scholarship fund in New York City, said at a reception before the event that her government's recent agreement to negotiate with the African National Congress (ANC) and to release ANC leader Nelson Mandela was in in large part a result of international pressure...
...Nelson Mandela has been released but South Africa is still not free," said Mpho Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. The prominent archbishop, who has an honorary degree from Harvard, was elected last year as an HRAAA candidate to the Board of Overseers--the University's alumnielected governing board...
...keep the pressure on until apartheid is completely over--until people like Nelson Mandela can vote," said Woods, who until a few weeks ago was banned from his native South Africa...
...MAULING OF MANDELA. Antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela's ten-day tour through the U.S. is three weeks away, but it has already set off a frenzy of opportunism among organizers, peddlers and politicians. Officials at the African National Congress are so besieged with requests from T-shirt hustlers, record producers and concert promoters that they've started a file labeled SHARKS. In California the Mandela Visit Freedom Committee and the Southern California Chapter for the A.N.C. are jockeying over who has final say about his schedule there. And Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is preening for a summit...
...name. Situated in the Orange Free State gold-mining belt, the town of 54,000 whites and 150,000 blacks had long managed to keep a relatively peaceful if wary distance from the murderous political events that plagued other parts of South Africa. But with the release of Nelson Mandela, the legalization of the African National Congress and President F.W. de Klerk's reform initiatives, racial tensions are rippling across Welkom like an evil wind...