Tag: Johannesburg
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A TERROR BOMB KILLS NINE: About 100 Hurt in Johannesburg
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Monday, April 25, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—A 200-pound car bomb ripped through downtown Johannesburg yesterday, killing nine and terrorizing South Africans two days before the first all-race elections. “I thought I was dead,” said Tina Dhumess, 42, after doctors patched her head cuts. “I was praying…
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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…
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BLOODIED BUT DEFIANT, SOUTH AFRICANS VOW . . . WE WILL VOTE_BOMBERS DON’T STOP VOTE
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, April 26, 1994 GERMISTON—Dennis Makubela will vote. Someone almost killed him yesterday, but he will vote. Mavis Phungula will vote. Someone almost killed her too, when a bomb—the worst of many that exploded across the country yesterday—destroyed a crowded taxi stand in…
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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…
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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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INCREDIBLE ROAD TAKES HIM HOME: Mandela Has Only Begun to be Great
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Tuesday, May 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—This day was never supposed to come. Nelson Mandela was never supposed to return from life imprisonment to divert South Africa from the ruinous path apartheid has laid for its peoples. And blacks in this country were never supposed…