South Africa’s new men

“IT IS at this point that my generation, which did what it could, hands over the baton to our successors.” Thus President Nelson Mandela ended an unusually outspoken five-hour speech, handing over the leadership of the African National Congress to Thabo Mbeki, elected unopposed as his successor. Some 3,000 cheering delegates waved farewell; ANC leaders queued up to hug the old man. But behind the jollity lay the hard-nosed business of defining the post-Mandela congress.