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Tutu's successor at SACC, a group deeply distrusted by the authorities, is the Rev. Christiaan Beyers Naudé. A well-known member of the Afrikaner establishment, Naudé turned his back on Afrikanerdom in 1960, following the killing of 69 blacks by police in the Sharpeville massacre. He helped found the multiracial Christian Institute of South Africa, which declared apartheid immoral. In 1977 the government "banned" both the institute and Naudé, condemning him to seven years of virtual house arrest. Yet Naudé, 70, shows no signs of yielding. Since he assumed his SACC post last February, he has urged the government...
...conservative, dark-suited son of Afrikanerdom, President Frederik Willem de Klerk could not have rocked the political world more when, in 1990, he unbanned the African National Congress, released Nelson Mandela and set South Africa on the road to the end of apartheid and a black-majority democracy. And when De Klerk, who with Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize for engineering the transition to a new South Africa, surprised his nation last week by announcing that he was retiring as head of the opposition National Party, South Africa had more to reflect on than his role in the historic...
After a two-day general strike by millions of black workers last week, the A.N.C. and its allies in the trade unions and the Communist Party turned up the heat with marches in several cities. Most dramatic was the peaceful turnout in Pretoria, the heart of Afrikanerdom and the administrative capital of the country, where 70,000 marchers drew up in the park below President F.W. de Klerk's office and chanted, "De Klerk must go!" Said A.N.C. secretary- general Cyril Ramaphosa: "Next time, Mr. De Klerk, we are going to be inside...
...when an uprising in the township of Soweto heralded a surge in black demands for political rights. But this year, by freeing Nelson Mandela, legalizing the African National Congress and pursuing negotiations with black leaders on a new constitution, President F.W. de Klerk has sent a profound shock through Afrikanerdom. Appearing finally to accept that they cannot maintain their near exclusive hold on state power for much longer, Afrikaners across the political spectrum are asking what role they should play if South Africa is ruled by the black majority...
...state of emergency in much of the country. Most important, he and his National Party have started down a road that made De Klerk's predecessors tremble: toward negotiations on a new constitution that will finally enfranchise blacks. If everybody votes in the next election, this son of Afrikanerdom could be the country's last white President...