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mm 6A NEWS/(C$e dwrlotte $ot Thursday, April 15, 2004 Uhiro Of vodng mnaring tMn for SoiNh Ahtoans Continued from page 2A tating AIDS epidemic, appear to be wearing away the sheen on its young democracy. “Standing on the sidelines, failing to go to the polls, is a neglect of the democratic duty,” Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, warned an over flowing ANC election rally. “And in our case in South Africa, it can be read to sig nal disregard for the hard and painful struggles that went into bringing about democracy.” In an unusual door-to-door campaign from squalid shacks to comfortahle mid dle-class living rooms, Mandela’s successor accen tuated the ANC’s achieve ments and asked supporters to he patient. The government has built 1.6 million houses, brought clean water to 9 million more people and now delivers elec tricity to 70 percent of homes. The former socialist party has revived an ailing economy and lifted the coun try from diplomatic isolation to take a leading role in African affairs. Above all, the ANC has presided over a peaceful transition to majority rule hailed as a miracle. “We have always known that our country’s blemishes, produced hy more than three centuries of colonialism and apartheid, could not be removed in one decade,” Mbeki said in his recent state of the nation address. Lunga Makoe, a 25-year- old security guard, was a child under apartheid but still remembers its horrors. “My older brothers were shot with rubber bullets and beaten by police,” he said. “This is why we must aU vote. We can never live like that again.” Opponents led by the Democratic Alliance, expect ed to finish a distant second, accuse Mbeki and the ANC of mishandhng the AIDS cri sis, neglecting to crack down on corruption and crime, and failing to create jobs in the new “rainbow nation.” While a new black elite is changing the face of South Afncan suburbs and board- rooms, life has changed little for millions stfll trapped in crowded townships and iso lated villages. Unemployment of more than 30 percent has hit poor ly educated blacks hard, and the gap between rich and poor is increasing. An esti mated 5.3 million South Africans are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS - more than in any other country. “Rainbow nation’ is a nice phrase, but there is no black or brown in a rainbow,” grumbled Trevor Trout, 47, an unemployed father of four living in a cramped home in Cape Tbwn. More than 20 million of the South Africa’s 45 million peo ple have registered to vote for a 400-member National Assembly, which will then choose a president. Nine provincial assemblies also win be elected and they, in turn, win select delegates to the 90-member National Council of Provinces, parlia ment’s second chamber. WH>E Never Looked So Good! WAREHOVSE 704-847-1699 9129 Monroe Rd., Charlotte. NC Store Hours: Mon-Thur 10-6 • Fri10-7 ♦ Sat 10-6 • Sun 12-6 Non-Magnet Schools Allenbrook Elementary Ashley Park Elementary Bruns Avenue Elementary Oakhurst Elementary Pinewood Elementary Westerly Hills Elementary Marie G. Davis Middle Cochrane Middle E. E. Waddell High Magnet Schools and Programs Oaklawn Spanish Immersion Oaklawn Spanish Late Immersion Oaklawn French Immersion Oaklawn French Late Immersion Smith German Immersion Smith Japanese Immersion Smith French Late Immersion Statesville Road IB Oakhurst Paideia E. E. 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