Word: soweto
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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...
...problem for her husband and his colleagues in the African National Congress. During his 27 years in prison she was first a heroine of the antiapartheid movement and then an imperious rival to its leadership. The movement publicly condemned her in 1989 for inflicting a ``reign of terror'' on Soweto with her gang of bodyguards; she was later convicted of kidnapping. She now could pose a political threat to the President. Voicing her angry populism, she provides leadership to thousands of young, militant township dwellers who are impatient with a deliberative political process and cooperation with South Africa's whites...
...Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. For whites, it became potentially fatal to work the townships alone. To diminish the dangers, Carter hooked up with three friends -- Ken Oosterbroek of the Star and free-lancers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva -- and they began moving through Soweto and Tokoza at dawn. If a murderous gang was going to shoot up a bus, throw someone off a train or cut up somebody on the street, it was most likely to happen as township dwellers began their journeys to work in the soft, shadowy light of an African morning...
...clinics. Few delude themselves that a mansion and a Mercedes are at hand, but almost all expect -- even demand -- some visible improvement in their everyday life. "There is a transfer of power taking place to the toiling masses of this country," says Voice Mabe, a trade-union worker in Soweto. "From the end of April, there will be drastic changes...
...final A.N.C. election rally in Soweto, when a burst of celebratory gunfire ripped the air, Mandela turned stony faced. "It is clear," he said sharply, "that criminality is deep seated even amongst members of the A.N.C." If he found out who was carrying the arms, he said, he would suspend ! them from membership "because one of our commitments is to ensure gun control." His close colleague Mbeki also says violence must be curbed. One reason is to safeguard "the first impression this new South Africa makes, particularly on the investor community inside and outside the country...