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Article: A shining moment. (election of South Africa's President Nelson Mandela) (Editorial)
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- May 20, 1994
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The revolution that ended forty-five years of apartheid in South Africa last month--complete with universal suffrage, new flag and national anthem ("Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika," "God Bless Africa")--was not a velvet revolution a la Eastern Europe. But like the collapse of communism in 1989, it was an achievement of the highest order and a triumph of the human spirit. The courage and dignity of those voting for the first time offered a lesson for a world beleaguered by ethnic wars, religious controversies, and single-party rule. True, the legacy of apartheid, built on three hundred years of colonialist subjugation in South Africa, will not be expunged soon, if ever. But South ...
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