Michael O. Allen

Tag: KwaZulu

  • 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…

  • CAULDRON OF CHANGE

    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…

  • 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.…

  • Pact in South Africa Zulu Party to Take Part in Election

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday, April 20, 1994 PRETORIA—In a last-minute about-face that won him little more than he was offered 10 days and dozens of political killings ago, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi yesterday agreed to take part in next week’s first all-race election. With…

  • S. AFRICA IS EYING THE PRIZE

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 24, 1994 SOWETO—With rousing gusto, Nelson Mandela and some 60,000 frenzied supporters celebrated the approaching end of a bitter journey yesterday here in the place where their freedom quest began nearly 20 years ago. They did the toyi-toyi, the dance of celebration. They sang…