Tag: Johannesburg
-
It’s a New Day for S. African Women
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, May 8, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—Zodwa Tshabalala, her left leg shattered at the knee, crawled through an open gate as neighbors who heard her screaming clustered around her. “I’ll kill you if you are not gone by the time I come back,” her fiancé told her before…
-
Mandela, ANC Readying for Power
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, May 8, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s new national assembly sits for the first time tomorrow, and the African National Congress, which holds 252 of the chamber’s 400 seats, will select Nelson Mandela, as president. On Tuesday, he will be sworn in as the nation’s first president…