MANDELA AND THE GENERAL

Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and first leader of the new South Africa, is an international symbol of the power of a popul ar movement to fight structural racism. But that nonviolent struggle for equality and justice very nearly spiraled into an all-out r ace war that would have only ended in the peace of graveyards.As the first post-apartheid elections approach in 1994, with blacks poised to take power, white South Africans fear reprisal. White nationalist militias claiming 50,000 well-armed former soldiers stan d ready to ...[Read more]