SOUTH AFRICA: THABO MBEKI GETS READY TO TAKE OVER FROM NELSON MANDELA AS PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
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SOUTH AFRICA: THABO MBEKI GETS READY TO TAKE OVER FROM NELSON MANDELA AS PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
- Title: SOUTH AFRICA: THABO MBEKI GETS READY TO TAKE OVER FROM NELSON MANDELA AS PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA
- Date: 18th May 1999
- Summary: VARIOUS LOCATIONS SOUTH AFRICA (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA WAVING AT CROWD 2. MANDELA AND THABO MBEKI 3. MBEKI SITTING IN CAR 4. MBEKI GETTING OUT OF CAR 5. MANDELA ON PLATFORM WAVING AND DANCING 6. CROWD APPLAUDING 7. MANDELA AND MBEKI STANDING IN OPEN CAR DRIVING PAST CROWDS AND WAVING 8. CLOSEUP MBEKI WAVING 9. SOUNDBITE (English) MANDELA "He is always positive and optimistic and leaves us more united and stronger than we were before. I want to congratulate him for the dynamic leadership that he has given and as I retire to my village, I know the organization is in good hands. Thank you" 10. ARMED SOLDIER WATCHING OVER CROWD 11. THREE MEN WEARING MBEKI T-SHIRTS DANCING AND CHEERING 12. MBEKI GREETING CROWD 13. SOUNDBITE (English) MBEKI "I think that we will have a good election and a government will emerge from the elections that nobody will have any doubt about as to the fact that they have been genuinely elected on the basis of the will of the people. The elections are free and fair and I think that's very important in terms of the stability that you need in order to move forward." 14. DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER TONY LEON WALKING 15. LEON KISSING LITTLE BLACK BOY ON CHEEK 16. SOUNDBITE (English) "Mr Mbeki has given off conflicting signals of the kind of administration he'll run. On the one hand he's put forward a very narrow Africanist vision where he continually makes reference to the effect that whites have not sacrificed enough or whites need to make more compromises. On the other hand he speaks of a more inclusive South Africanism which would obviously be in the spirit of Mr Mandela. But it's not clear which side of his own argument or dialectic he's going to come down upon." 17. CROWD CHEERING 18. SOUNDBITE (English) MATHINUS VAN SCHAKWYK, NEW NATION PARTY "I don't think Mbeki is a very hands-on manager. What is obviously a problem in the ANC is that the governing alliance is such a broad alliance that there's a lack of coherent policy and that is one area that he will quickly have to sort out." 19. MBEKI SHAKING PEOPLES' HANDS 20. ZULU MEMBERS IN TRADITIONAL CLOTHES 21. ZULU CHIEF MAGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI SPEAKING ON PODIUM 22. PEOPLE WATCHING 23. SOUNDBITE (English) BUTHELEZI "Opposition party's important in keeping the party in power on its toes. It serves a very good purpose to have an opposition but at the same time Mr Mbeki has spoken about a party consensus because when you look at the poverty of black people in this country and the way things are in the country, there are some issues on which one should not behave in a partisan way." 24. PEOPLE WAVING AS PARTY VANS DRIVE PAST 25. VARIOUS POSTERS ADVERTISING PARTY CANDIDATES 26. MANDELA DANCING IN FRONT OF CROWD 27. MBEKI DANCING 28. MBEKI GETTING ON BICYCLE AND ALMOST FALLING OFF 29. VARIOUS OF MBEKI WAVING AT CROWD Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SOUTH AFRICA
- Country: South Africa
- Reuters ID: LVA71NB88707BKUN9F5J3WI43FO5
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