Tag: South Africans
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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…
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FEAR STALKS THE LAND_‘Whole country has gone mad’
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…
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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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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…