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In modern Africa's first half century of independence, no moment better encapsulates the hopes and despair of the continent than April 1994. Millions of voters were then queuing for hours to cast their ballots in South Africa's first all-race elections, which ended the racist apartheid system and brought to power Nelson Mandela, a fighter who ... Read More
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Sep. 7, 1992 | By LANCE MORROWThe Great Rift Valley can be seen from space. It shears down the eastern shoulder of Africa, a vast geological gash, one of the mysteries of the continent's power. Human life began in the Rift, as if it were gleaming up through a crack in the world. Africa has a genius for extremes, for the ...
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Nov. 21, 1977For sake of survival the Afrikaners prepare to enter the laager again
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Oct. 11, 1976Slipping silently through woods and rolling farm lands about to explode with the new growth of the African spring, black guerrillas eluded the hard-pressed patrols along Rhodesia's frontier with Mozambique and posted crude signs on the fences of white farmers. The signs said simply: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES. A hundred miles to the west in Salisbury, ...
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Jun. 27, 1977How to judge South Africa, and what to do about it, represents an exceptionally painful dilemma for the U.S. TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald just completed a two-week tour of the country. His impressions: Americans should talk to South Africa not about morality, but about reality. Most Americans would call South Africa's treatment of blacks ...
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Aug. 26, 1966SOUTH AFRICA (See Cover) Black headlines last week told South Africans of the troubles elsewhere. RACES IN U.S. ON COLLISION COURSE, announced the Natal Mercury, while the Johannesburg Star gave prominence tO THE TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties ...
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