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...extra ballots. But the chaos and violence that threatened to overwhelm the process early in the week had largely subsided by Thursday, as government police announced the arrest of more than 30 white supremacists charged with 21 bombing deaths. Voting was extended to a fourth day in six rural areas, including the Zulu stronghold in Natal province. "It's like the birth of a baby," exulted Linda Khaba, a local magistrate. "Problems, anxiety...
...blacks -- at least in the short term -- expectations begin at a far more basic level, with services that would be simply assumed in an industrialized country. But apartheid has left them with almost nothing: the great majority live in such desperate poverty, in dusty, refuse-strewn townships or gritty rural backwaters, that their dreams are of clean water, paved streets, garbage collection, sewers...
Voter education must start now--in the workplace, at schools, in other public venues and particularly among the rural community in order that people may know their vote is secret and does make a difference in the governing of the country...
...often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Imagine in the same way Jakarta or Shanghai. Beyond that, Singapore began its life as a British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street, with its own flag, armed forces and immigration controls...
...Cambodia, voters had a finger dipped in invisible ink and were told to hold it up in the air until dry.. Apparently, three days later people were seen still with their fingers held aloft. similar behavior here could have meant death to a rural peasant in Zululand, although perhaps not now that Inkatha is finally in on the election process...