51.   Whether the Million Man March will re-energize this black silent majority is uncertain.

52.   While rugby and cricket are the national sports of white South Africans, soccer is the sport of choice for the overwhelming black majority.

53.   And it reminded some celebrants of the days when apartheid-era police commonly used such actions to repress the black majority.

54.   Back home, where soccer is followed and played zealously by most of the black majority, the reaction was more critical.

55.   Black majority rule arrived a year later and the country was renamed Zimbabwe.

56.   Both white-led parties have sought to reach out to the black majority in South Africa with only limited success.

57.   British-backed white Zimbabweans are still trying to oppress the black majority, he said.

58.   But he said the legacy of colonialism left a wide gap between big business, mostly owned by whites, and small commercial enterprises run by the black majority.

59.   But he issued a warning to white extremists and others to avoid angering the black majority now in power.

60.   But the monument serves another purpose for the black majority.