Word: phambili
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...could rise to replace the white liberal warhorses of the struggle years. (Gordimer turns 82 this month, Fugard is 73, Brink 70, Coetzee 65.) Then the new South Africa will have a fitting accompaniment to its flawed, feisty, adolescent democracy: a literature born in equality and fired with impatience. Phambili...
...Mandela's African National Congress and its Zulu rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party. On election eve, bombs set by white extremists shook Johannesburg. Civil war seemed all too possible. Yet one year later, blacks and whites feel released from a 350-year-old burden. "I am excited, relieved," says Phambili Gama, a black engineer in Johannesburg. "Psychologically we feel liberated, even if many economic changes are still to be realized." Beverley Dalton, a white Cape Town public relations executive, puts it more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone out of our lives." Now at national...
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