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More than 700 people have died in the townships around Johannesburg since fighting broke out in mid-August, largely between supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and Zulus belonging to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha movement. Last week the bloodshed reached a numbing climax, when black men rampaged through a Soweto-bound commuter train with guns, pangas and knives, killing at least 26 people. The violence poses a threat to the fundamental change promised by President F.W. de Klerk, whose efforts to dismantle apartheid nonetheless achieve an important milestone next week when he meets with President Bush...
...root of the problem remains Natal province, where bloodletting between A.N.C. supporters and the largely Zulu following of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has claimed nearly 4,000 lives in the past few years. At a joint press conference with De Klerk last week, Mandela charged that police violence against blacks continues -- especially in Natal, where security forces allegedly collaborate with Buthelezi's Inkatha movement -- and complained that key elements of the police force may simply be outside the President's control. Buthelezi again called for a face-to-face meeting with Mandela, a development that many believe would cool...
...Wouldn't it help if you met with Buthelezi? It is an important question...
...important to us. There are six homeland leaders in South Africa. We are working with five. What is the importance of Buthelezi...
Many worried blacks and whites do not understand why Mandela has not used his nonpareil status to end the fighting between his supporters and the Inkatha organization, led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, which has killed thousands since 1985. During his years in prison, Mandela indicated that a top priority after his release would be to restore black unity by mending the rift. But when he proposed a meeting with Buthelezi last March, militants inside his organization vetoed the idea. "They nearly throttled me," said Mandela, who insists that he must accept such decisions because he remains "a loyal and disciplined...