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...security around President-elect Nelson Mandela last week neatly captured the country's new mood: his African National Congress bodyguards mixed easily with his white, Afrikaans-speaking government agents, exchanging black-power handshakes and chatting amiably. Three days before his inauguration, Mandela talked in Cape Town with Time deputy managing editor John Stacks, Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod and correspondent Peter Hawthorne...
...time last Thursday when Al Gore was preparing to lead the U.S. delegation to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, the American most deserving of that trip lay in a Washington hospital. Randall Robinson, who spent years mobilizing the opposition to South Africa's oppressive regime, was in the midst of a hunger strike protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of sending Haitian refugees back to their misery...
...awesome spectacle of transformation, Nelson Mandela and the black majority inherit the government...
...black skin, were abolished. The armed services became the South African National Defense Force, and will begin to absorb former enemies from guerrilla armies like the A.N.C.'s Spear of the Nation. Things were changing so fast, a South African Broadcasting Corp. interviewer lost track of who was President, Nelson Mandela, who will be sworn in next week, or F.W. de Klerk, the incumbent. He turned from talking with De Klerk to sign off, saying, "Well, there's State . . . former State Pres . . . well, State President de Klerk, Mr. de Klerk . . . not former...
...makes an exciting assignment for any reporter. In the case of South Africa, last week's unprecedented all-race voting created a united land out of bitterly divided fragments, and for Scott MacLeod, TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, it represented the high point of nearly five years of covering Nelson Mandela's journey from prisoner to President. "Most conflict stories we cover have tragic endings," observes MacLeod, "but what has made this a thrilling time to me is witnessing the remarkable determination here to heal divisions and achieve reconciliation...