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...Africa's violent crime was part of a "counter-revolution" engineered by pro-apartheid whites "to render the country ungovernable." But in retirement, Mandela rediscovered his inner democrat, speaking out against tyranny, wherever he found it - even in his own party. In March 2007, at the funeral of Adelaide Tambo, wife of his longtime friend and comrade Oliver Tambo, the old man scolded the assembled party leadership. The ANC's leaders should be "making this country of ours the caring and decent society for which this great South African dedicated her entire life and for which she sacrificed so much...
...took him on. A grateful Bolton began to sell offcuts and soiled cloth to Maponya, who set up his own tailor and sold clothing on credit. The authorities closed that business - despite the best efforts of South Africa's first black law firm, established by Mandela and Oliver Tambo - but not before Maponya had built enough capital to set up a dairy in Soweto...
Aerial views of urban areas magnify the damage seen on the ground. Whole sections of Pisco and Chincha have been leveled. The few buildings that remain standing are oddly off center, resembling a lopsided wood-block tower about to crumble. Schools and hospitals are gone and the Tambo de Mora prison, from which 600 inmates escaped after the earthquake, looks like a pile of rocks around which someone has incongruously built guard towers. Of the 91 government-run daycare centers in Pisco, only one remains...
Besides helping with the relief efforts, the Interior Ministry dispatched police officers to Ica to stop thieves from looting damaged homes and stores. Some 600 inmates at the Tambo de Mora prison in Ica's Chincha province escaped when the earthquake tumbled the penitentiary walls. The National Police announced that officers had only arrested 29 of the escaped convicts by mid-day Thursday. A second prison in Ica was also seriously compromised by the earthquake, but none of the prisoners managed to escape...
...Tambo's response was that such military setbacks would merely force the A.N.C. to place greater emphasis on sabotage. In the future, he said, the guerrillas would strike not only at military and economic targets but civilian ones as well. The A.N.C. has since demonstrated that it is capable of doing that, though in most cases the victims have been black. What remains in doubt is whether the A.N.C. at present has anywhere near the power it would need to make a serious dent in the country's finely honed security apparatus...