Tag: whites

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…