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- <text id=90TT2429>
- <title>
- Sep. 17, 1990: World Notes:South Africa
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 17, 1990 The Rotting Of The Big Apple
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Unexpected Visitor
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> As the entourage made its way around the country's largest
- black township, young men cried, "Viva, comrade!" and children
- shouted, "Welcome!" Greetings for African National Congress
- leader Nelson Mandela? No. Last week crowds in Soweto (pop. 2
- million) were showing appreciation for a white politician.
- President F.W. de Klerk took an unannounced tour of Soweto
- following weeks of violence involving rival black factions and
- security forces. Blacks cheered De Klerk, explained Agnes
- Molahlehi, 25, a nursing student, because he freed Mandela and
- has taken steps to abolish apartheid.
- </p>
- <p> But the violence shows no sign of abating. Later in the
- week, two black gunmen opened fire at a Johannesburg train
- station, killing five blacks.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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