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...threat of death was nothing new to Chris Hani. As the exiled military commander of the African National Congress during the 1980s, he survived three attempts on his life. After President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. in 1990 and Hani returned home from Zambia as a member of the group's ruling executive committee to negotiate with Pretoria's white rulers, he looked forward to living eventually in a fair and free society. Last week, however, as he arrived at his home in Boksburg from a morning of grocery shopping with his daughter, Hani...
...been to Africa since last October, when our center led an international group that monitored a successful multiparty election in Zambia. The new government is typical of a rapidly growing number of democracies in Africa that are struggling to establish free markets and new opportunities for the people despite natural disasters and treasuries robbed or wasted by predecessor regimes...
...time of its independence from Britain in 1964, Zambia was the richest black country in Africa south of the Sahara. It had $1.1 billion in foreign reserves, plus the world's second largest copper-mining industry. It also had emeralds, other gemstones and immense fertile areas. It had the potential to become southern Africa's breadbasket, and President Kenneth Kaunda promised every Zambian a pint of milk...
Arriving in Lusaka today, a visitor might think Zambia is a country emerging from war. Stretches of road in the capital look as if they have been under mortar bombardment. Buildings are dilapidated, vehicles rattletrap. Thousands live in tin-shelter shantytowns. Unemployment and crime are running high. Zambia has become one of the poorest nations anywhere, with one of the world's highest per capita foreign debts -- nearly $1,000 for each of its 8 million people; average annual income per person is less than $290. As in many African countries, a small layer of extremely wealthy people flourishes above...
...tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin and Togo...