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...South Africa, whose revolutionary political changes he calls "the greatest civil rights story ever." He has reported that story for TIME and other publications over the past eight years, and in 1990 he published January Sun, a book chronicling a day in the lives of three families in a Transvaal town. All of this won Stengel the job of collaborating with South African President Nelson Mandela on Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, which is excerpted in this issue...
...enrich this week's cover stories with additional insights into Mandela, we turned to contributor Richard Stengel. He too is a veteran observer of South Africa, having published the 1990 book January Sun, an account of a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. "I chose Brits," he says, "because I thought the real story of South Africa was in the countryside, not the cities." Stengel, who is helping Mandela edit his memoirs, admires the man's self-deprecating sense of humor. "As Mandela approached the polls last week," Stengel recalls...
Classes are in session from the northern Transvaal to Cape Province. Khayelitsha, a sandy, windswept tract along the South Atlantic coast, is the largest black township in the Cape Town area. Its small A.N.C. campaign office -- one of 94 around the country -- is a whitewashed single-story building in a neighborhood where thieves and vandals have driven out most residents and shopkeepers. Behind barred windows, regional secretary Richard Dyantyi, 24, a slim former marketing student, directs the A.N.C.'s organizational work. Though he has only one telephone, one fax and two reluctant copying machines, he has lots of helpers. Their...
Groenewald says the Volksfront's purpose is to back up demands in the current negotiations for an independent white state comprising about 16% of South Africa's territory. It would correspond roughly to the old Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Neither De Klerk nor Mandela will accept such a state, since it would require the forced removal of millions of blacks or a return to apartheid-style discrimination against them...
...KHAKI-CLAD AFRIKANER FARMERS WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...