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...South Africa's wine-producing region near Paarl, Nelson Mandela has been conducting a quiet diplomatic campaign. Last July he accepted an invitation from his adversary, former President P.W. Botha, for a historic face-to-face meeting. Mandela has since received a series of visitors at the Victor Verster Prison Farm, where he is serving his 26th year of a life sentence for plotting to overthrow white rule. Most of his powwows have been with leaders of rival antigovernment groups. But last week Mandela, 71, a leader of the banned African National Congress (A.N.C.), traveled under escort 30 miles...
...release of Sisulu and seven others, including all the remaining Rivonia prisoners except Mandela, as soon as "the necessary formalities" could be arranged. There was a mixture of joy and sadness when Mrs. Sisulu later visited the 71-year-old Mandela in his stucco bungalow at the Victor Verster prison farm. As the 8 p.m. television news announced De Klerk's decision, Mandela embraced Mrs. Sisulu. "We want to take you with us right now," she told him. "Yes," Mandela replied. "I want to go home...
Mandela, who has a television and radio in his three-bedroom house at Victor Verster Prison, heard the angry reaction of his supporters. In a statement released last Wednesday, he repeated his conviction that a government "dialogue with the mass democratic movement, and in particular with the African National Congress, is the only way of ending violence and bringing peace." His intention, he told his followers, was "to contribute to the creation of the climate" that would lead to such negotiations. Black leaders immediately began downplaying their resentment, and Chikane retreated. "I welcome Mr. Mandela's commitment" to creating such...
After conferring with her husband at Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town last week, Mandela canceled a planned press conference. Three days later, Mandela reportedly agreed to remove the bodyguards from her home. But the decision left unexplained whether she had been oblivious to the misdeeds of her football team or had encouraged them. Through most of her husband's 26- year imprisonment, Winnie Mandela seemed a true heroine, undiminished by loneliness, police harassment, detention and banishment. Now, even to old friends, she is a mystery...
...black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela was recovering from tuberculosis in a clinic near Pollsmoor Prison last month, rumors circulated that his 26-year confinement would soon end. Instead of freeing Mandela, however, the South African government last week installed him in a guarded, one-story stucco house on the Verster Prison Farm, 35 miles east of Cape Town...