Tag: Winnie Mandela
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MANDELA—BORN TO RULE
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Sunday, April 3, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—He carries himself like he was born to power—and he was, 75 years ago, in a hut at the bottom of the African continent. His family ran the village; a cousin, with whom he lived while a teen, was…
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Blacks live in N.Y.—that’s no put on
By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Monday, April 11, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—This is a time and a city for keeping a journal: Yes, Princess, New York is in the U.S.A. and black people live there. Most black South Africans have had little contact with American blacks, so little that Princess…
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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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‘AMADOU’S ARMY’ HAS NEW RECRUIT IN WINNIE MANDELA By MICHAEL O. ALLEN SUNDAY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, December 19, 1999 The Rev. Al Sharpton’s efforts to recruit people for “Amadou’s Army” – a group of New Yorkers who will go to Albany for the Amadou Diallo murder trial – got an unexpected boost yesterday from Winnie Mandela. Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela, arrived at…