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Freedom has come for Mandela, and it may be nearing for all blacks who long to rule in their own land. But the youth are emerging as apartheid's saddest and potentially most dangerous legacy: as many as 5 million young people, from their early 30s down to perhaps 10, mostly school dropouts who are unable to get jobs and unprepared to make constructive contributions to society. They are the deprived, activists, layabouts or thieves. They live in bleak urban townships, where the standard four-room house shelters an average of 10 people. They are often murderous supporters of rival...
There are millions of young men, some like Che, in South Africa, a country's lost generation. Nelson Mandela hailed black youth as the "Young Lions," who took over as the shock troops of the revolution while he and other aging black leaders were locked away in prison. The "comrades," as they called themselves, battled the state's security forces for control of the townships, rooted out informers and sellouts, and spearheaded worker stay-aways and consumer boycotts. It was their militancy and surging growth, as much as anything else, that finally convinced the white government in Pretoria that apartheid...
...fiery images of death have become part of their normal experience. Many of them, in the words of Drum magazine editor Barney Cohen, are capable of killing at the drop of a match. They have developed a youth culture of alienation and intolerance that may be more destructive, in its sheer scale, than anything seen in Beirut, Belfast or the Gaza Strip...
...youth rebellion began on June 16, 1976, when the schoolchildren of Soweto, seething over the inferior instruction known as Bantu education, rose up in protest against the state's edict that their lessons must be learned in Afrikaans, the language of the ruling whites. The initial battles left more than 400 dead, but the uprising was never completely quelled. In 1984 the comrades of the still simmering townships rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil...
...collaborating with the government by encouraging Zulus to live in their segregated homeland. Meanwhile, the A.N.C. has been burdened by the troubles of Mandela's wife Winnie, who faces trial as early as this week on charges of kidnapping and assault in connection with the 1988 death of a youth who allegedly died at the hands of her bodyguards...