Tag: black-majority rule

  • Afrikaner Memorial gets new owners

    By GENE MUSTAIN and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday, April 13, 1994 PRETORIA—The prospect of black majority rule has resulted in the privatization of this country’s most famous monument. In a move akin to turning the Statute of Liberty over to the Manhattan Institute, the departing white minority government has transferred…

  • 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…

  • Mandela, ANC Readying for Power

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, May 8, 1994 JOHANNESBURG—South Africa’s new national assembly sits for the first time tomorrow, and the African National Congress, which holds 252 of the chamber’s 400 seats, will select Nelson Mandela, as president. On Tuesday, he will be sworn in as the nation’s first president…