By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Against a backdrop of hope and fear, a nation’s epic march toward democracy has entered a bloody home stretch. The people of South Africa—including, for the first time, the majority black population—will go to the polls later this month […]
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 Saraan Ajaye did not even know South Africa was a country until she took a human rights course a year ago. Ajaye, a senior at the Bronx alternative high school Schomburg Satelite Academy, now sees the country’s gallop to democracy after three […]
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—The epicenter of the violence that rattled this city last week remained a place of frayed nerves and bullet-riddled glass yesterday. Outside the headquarters of the African National Congress Party, a security guard quickly confronted two visitors who stepped […]
Text: MICHAEL O. ALLEN; Maps & Design: JIM WILLIS | Sunday, April 3, 1994 HISTORY’S LESSONS South Africa, as it enters a world made uncertain by the end of apartheid, should look to the post-independence experiences of Namibia and Zimbabwe. The same fears being raised today about South Africa’s stumble to democracy were raised in […]
A friend of mine, Martin, sent me an e-mail with three pictures attached. I have not asked his permission to post this but this is the subject line of his e-mail: “Three pictures one of slang, the other of a little box, and the message from Obama to his people, apparently the world, not the […]
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—He carries himself like he was born to power—and he was, 75 years ago, in a hut at the bottom of the African continent. His family ran the village; a cousin, with whom he lived while a teen, was […]
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 The scenes are stunning: blacks lustily cheering apartheid scion Frederik Willem de Klerk as he campaigns for re-election to the presidency of South Africa. The happy candidate obliges by donning Zulu tribal hats, carrying spears and cowhide shields. “I’m white,” he told […]
John Edwards had the right message both times when he ran for the presidency. The problem was that he himself seemed fake. The harder he sold himself, the less I was willing to buy. One of the things he sold hardest was this idea that he had a wholesome family. And when it turned that […]
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers, Wednesday | April 6, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—The looming national election has laid a new carpet of fear across this already traumatized and hyper-vigilant society. With three weeks to go, gun stores and food stores are running out of weapons and non-perishable food, and many whites […]
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers, Wednesday | April 6, 1994 SOWETO—He was an unidentified man, a weekly newspaper reported, and lucky for him that the police and paramedics came along when they did. He was walking past the Dube Hostel, a decrepit barracks-like encampment where the so-called Zulu royalists […]