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their nefarious schemes.
this epoch-making event,
a watershed occurrence
become en...
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was a gory affair
It had been brinkmanship of an appalling nature.
the risks of violence and mayhem
There was a tight knot of anxiety in the pit of my stomach.
would confound the machinations of the childr...
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when evil seemed to be on the rampage and about to overwhelm goodness,
had been disenfranchised,
living daily in the deprivation and squalor of apartheid’s racially segregated ghetto townships.
could act as it saw fit.
were in good spirits;
was giddy stuff.
had been callously trodden underfoot
apartheid’s minions
was appalled by what I saw.
The police and the security forces were probably stretched but they were hardly a conspicuous presence.
mayhem and havoc.
there was a hitch of...
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the officials had not yet turned up hours after
was a comprehensive disaster waiting to happen.
It was an amazing s...
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were standing in those lines that were snaking their way slowly to the polling booth.
were really irrelevancies.
What a profound scientific discovery
who had the same concerns and anxieties a...
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They just wanted their place in the sun.
a mountaintop experience.
a new, transfigured
with head held high, the shoulders set straighter, and an elastic spring in her step.
tasted like sweet nectar for the first time? How do you explain it to someone who
It is ine...
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It is a feeling that makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time,
fearful that it was too good to be true and that it just might all evaporate.
You’re on clo...
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people poured out into the streets
hugging and kissing perfect strangers.
in the dark days
Today they were experiencing it as a reality.
claw our way out of the morass
“Unless we learn to live together as brothers [and sisters] we will die together as fools.”
this epoch-making event.
put out the red carpet of welcome.
traveled abroad furtively,
wearing their country’s flag on their lapels and stuck prominently on their luggage,
leaders were milling around in Pretoria.
Almost as if from one throat, an ear-piercing roar broke forth from the South Africans
It was poignant
