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Children danced triumphantly at the door of the small red brick house in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. Neighbors and friends greeted its famous resident with joyous tears and welcoming hugs. For the first time in nine years, Winnie Mandela, a leading antiapartheid activist and the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, enjoyed a privilege that most take for granted: the right to enter her own home...
Since 1962 Mandela has lived under various banning orders restricting her activities. In 1977 she was banished from her Soweto house to Brandfort, in a remote area of the Orange Free State. When unknown arsonists fire bombed her residence there last August, Mandela blamed the government, defiantly returned to Soweto and challenged her banning restrictions in court. Following moves by some courts to invalidate banning orders recently, a government prosecutor last week announced that the state was abandoning its efforts to enforce the restrictions on Mandela. Though technically the ban had not been lifted, no attempts were made to prevent...
Tutu's request, which was also seen as an illumination of Black despair, came at the same time that the government dropped restrictions preventing the wife of jailed Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela from returning to her home in the township of Soweto...
...news conference and in separate interviews, freed prisoners spoke of assault and deprivation, tear gas and water-hosings. One of them, 24-year-old Sidney Molekane from Johannesburg's Black township of Soweto, said he was suspended from a broomstick with his hands and feet cuffed together and spun around...
...Heimert says he met with Blacks, but he disagrees with SASC on whom he should meet. Heimert says he consulted with Black educators informing them about the program, pointing to a meeting in Cape Town with Black professors and a meeting with members of the Soweto Parents Council, a community effort to educate Blacks in that segregated township. "I meet with educators," when involved in an educational project, not politicians, Heimerts argues...