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...great fortune of meeting that country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Rolihlala Mandela. It was an honor to meet "Madiba," as he is affectionately referred to in South Africa, but there was one aspect of my encounter with him at the African National Congress's (ANC) "Shell House" offices in Johannesburg which left me rather ill at ease...
...task team to redesign the party for the future, resigned when his ideas, including the disbanding of the party altogether, were rejected as too radical. Meyer, 50, heads a movement that will form a new political party later this month with a black group led by an ex-anc dissident. De Klerk believes Meyer is making a mistake in trying to rally an opposition political alliance. "You don't disband the second biggest party in the country in order to work with smaller parties," he says. But he also concedes that with the divisions in South African politics no longer...
...departure of De Klerk, who has been described as South Africa's Gorbachev because he began a reform process that swept him from power, is unlikely to have any effect on the powerful majority commanded by the ANC. But, says De Klerk, a reformed and renewed all-race National Party has a leading role to play in the restructuring of the political landscape in South Africa. There is a belief in the opposition camp, meanwhile, that like De Klerk, the National Party could become a victim of its own reforms...
...privately suspected South African involvement in Palme's death since 1987, but refused to comment further. Until his arrest, De Kock, who describes himself as South Africa's foremost assassin, ran the Vlakplaas, a shadowy vigilante group created by the apartheid-era South African government to fight the ANC with whatever tactics it chose. He and Williamson were contemporaries. "The problem is that a lot of what De Kock says is third-person hearsay," says TIME Southern Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "De Kock is trying to ease his sentence by providing information, and so people are skeptical about...
...ANC is light years ahead of any other institution in the country," she said. "It is an organization for ordinary men and women...