Michael O. Allen

Tag: democracy

  • You Say Vote

    You Say Vote

    You say vote and someone says: “Democracy is a sham. Those people don’t speak for me. The system is rigged.” You say vote. Someone says: “Well, it doesn’t make a difference. This state is red. Another state is blue. This thing is already a lock.” You say vote. Someone says: “Hey, I’m making a statement…

  • BREAKING THE CHAINS

    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…

  • TAKE NOTE, AMERICANS_Lessons from Across the Sea

    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…

  • VISIT TO SOWETO_INSIDE THE NECKLACE Pointless deaths but real victims

    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…

  • The killing fields of Zululand

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 17, 1994 DURBAN—Andy Cox wept for South Africa last week. He cried when his frantic search through the lush green bush of Zululand came to its dreadful end, and he wept again when he faced the relatives of the missing men.…

  • CASTING OUT APARTHEID: White Rule Dying Amid Ballots

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday, April 27, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Filled with indescribable emotions, South Africa’s liberation hero, Nelson Mandela, will vote today for the first time in his remarkable life. Mandela, the former political prisoner poised to become the first president of the new South Africa, is set…

  • NATION HEADS TO POLLS: South Africans Turn Out in Force in 1st All-Race Vote

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Thursday, April 28, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Their freedom finally at hand, millions upon jubilant millions of blacks voted for the first time yesterday and began sending the last colonial outpost on the Africa continent into the history books. On an epic day of stirring images…