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...graduated from Witwatersrand University inJohannesburg in 1966, and earned her J.D. fromYale Law School...
...blacks lack the education and skills needed to expand the economy significantly in the short term. "There is absolutely no way that those expectations will be met," says Kehla Shubane, 32, a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand. Under optimal conditions, it could take South Africa between five and 10 years to begin making tangible progress. If adopted, the A.N.C.'s socialist-oriented economic proposals -- popular with the lost generation -- would only postpone material improvement...
...must find some middle path that will satisfy both sides. Yet it must be more than apartheid with a human face. "His mandate is somehow to maintain white supremacy without alienating the black majority," says Alan Morris, an anti-apartheid activist and sociology lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. "How he does that, no one knows...
Mandela's talent for leadership traces back to his tribal heritage as the son of a royal family of the Thembu tribe of the Xhosa people. After earning a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, he joined the A.N.C. With classmate Oliver Tambo, he set up the first black law practice in South Africa in 1952. Defiantly working from a whites-only downtown neighborhood, they specialized in representing blacks who failed to carry the passes that were required of blacks in white neighborhoods...
...network of allied organizations. Among them: the Pretoria-based Lawyers for Human Rights, which presses private law firms to take public-interest cases; the Black Lawyers' Association and its offshoot the Legal Education Center in Johannesburg; and the Institute for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. All participate in a thriving exchange of students and professors between the U.S. and South Africa. Says John Dugard, head of the Institute for Applied Legal Studies: "These days, even high-court judges are making study trips to the U.S. Our legal education system is looking more and more...