Author: michael o. allen
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Harlem Rev Snubs de Klerk
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Thursday, April 28, 1994 SOWETO—The preacher from Harlem paid no mind when the president from Pretoria made a surprise visit to a church here yesterday. While dozens of people, including some of his fellow American preachers, crowded around South African President F. W.…
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OUTRAGE_MEETING HATRED IN SOUTH AFRICA: Black Daily News Reporter is Attacked as He Covers Rally
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Friday, April 29, 1994 RUSTENBURG—I was not afraid. I wanted to see them when they attacked me. “Kaffir, you have to leave; you are not wanted here,” one said. “Kaffir” is South Africa’s ugliest racial epithet, like its U.S. equivalent, “nigger.” “Wait a minute, you invited…
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OUTRAGE_Not All Press Welcomed, No Matter What the Sign Says
By GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writer | Friday, April 29, 1994 RUSTENBURG—The first whiff of the hate in store came when we turned off the two-lane blacktop onto a dusty rutted road and a group of Boer commandos by a parked car glared at us. One of them, a huge pot-bellied man with a…
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NEW CHALLENGES FOR A NEW NATION: Sharpton Sees Lesson in South Africa Voting
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, May 1, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After a whirlwind, emotional visit, the Rev. Al Sharpton flew home to New York yesterday with stars in his eyes. “If only I could bring home in a bottle the hope and spirit I saw here, it would change…
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NEW CHALLENGES FOR A NEW NATION_Mandela Facing a Huge Task
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, May 1, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—It was a symbolic moment too rich to miss—the eclipse of apartheid and a new day dawning on black aspirations for power. Under a full moon about two poignant minutes apart, before and after midnight one day last week,…
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Mandela, ANC Heading for Solid Win in Election
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Monday, May 2, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress was headed for victory yesterday with a 54.7% share of the vote so far in South Africa’s national election. Despite slow and chaotic vote counting, the ANC and its president, Mandela, appeared headed for…
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BRIGHT NEW DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA: We’re Also Set Free by Vote, Whites Say
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, May 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—After thinking about it for three decades, 74-year-old Arthur Holland decided to become a South African citizen yesterday. “My conscience won’t bother me anymore,” said the semi-retired white businessman, who came here with the British army and never left.…
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The Incomparable Ms. Simone
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FREE AT LAST_Jubilant Mandela Recalls King
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, May 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Invoking the epic cry of another great liberation struggle, Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress proclaimed South Africa “Free at last.” With only about half the ballots counted and the conclusion foregone, they claimed victory in the nation’s…