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That search deepened when he went overseas in 1992 to cover South Africa's march to democracy. Taylor acquired, among other things, a bullet in his shoulder during a shoot-out near Soweto, as well as a profound sense of the gap between how democracy is viewed in a country that is enchanted by its promise and one that is disgusted by its processes. "Part of the reason we've built up a $5 trillion deficit over the past 15 years is that we don't trust our politicians," he says. "Therefore, our politicians don't have the political freedom...
...rival to Mandela's African National Congress. "The country is remarkably stable, although there are a couple of hiccups now and then in race relations," Hawthorne says. Mandela's government is challenged with extending the country's infrastructure from modern white cities to poor black settlements and townships like Soweto, where poor blacks can see the lights of Johannesburg from the stoops of their unheated, unlit shacks. But in the past two years the government has developed a workable administrative infrastructure to deliver necessary services. Hawthorne notes: "The orderly ceremony in Parliament reflects the way the country has been able...
JOHANNESBURG: Despite the fact that Louis Farrakhan was visiting South Africa over the weekend, Hawthorne reports that the American Muslim's meeting with Nelson Mandela "came and went with barely a flurry of interest. People in Soweto wouldn't be able to tell you who Farrakhan is." Mandela met with the controversial Farrakhan for an hour, but took pains to explain that it did not signify an acceptance of the American's beliefs...
...these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to be executed...
...Nguni word meaning "Let us build each other") to achieve national reconciliation. The campaign, in part, is an effort by the A.N.C. to end the culture of protest among blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house. Today he pays it regularly and is even working off his debt...