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South African President F.W. de Klerk plunged his country into chaos a week ago Friday by announcing the legalization of Black opposition groups, the imminent release of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson R. Mandela and the lifting of restrictions on anti-apartheid organizations...
...compromise to be reached, Abernethy says, the concerned parties will have to agree on who may participate in negotiations--a tough task in itself. Right now, the major players include the ANC, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the United Democratic Front and Inkatha--a 1.5 million member group led by Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi of the Zulu nation...
...ANC's members--their presence now legal in South Africa--are expected to return to the country as early as July, in order to participate in negotiations with the government in Pretoria. And many expect the group, with Mandela back at the helm, to take the lead in voicing the Blacks' concerns...
Last week, De Klerk announced that NelsonMandela, the leader of the African NationalCongress (ANC), would be released from his 27-yearimprisonment. In addition, he said that the ANCand 31 other Black political groups would belegalized. And he promised the legalization of 374apartheid dissidents, as well as a halt toexecutions...
...most notable absentees were Inkatha, a relatively conservative Zulu organization opposed to the ANC's militant tactics, and so-called Africanist groups, which oppose the ANC's philosophy of non-racism...