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Mandela's top priority might be negotiating peace among blacks. A unity conference held by the A.N.C.-allied Mass Democratic Movement in Johannesburg last week was most notable for its failure to include its two main rivals: < Inkatha, the Zulu-based organization led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who heads a Pretoria-created homeland; and the Pan-Africanists, an A.N.C. splinter group that seeks to crush white "colonialists." Much of the tension stems from the A.N.C.'s insistence that it alone can negotiate on behalf of blacks...
...Mandela and De Klerk chatted, a virulent outbreak of black-on-black violence continued to spread in Natal province. Officials said at least 71 people have been killed since Dec. 1 in a turf war involving A.N.C. and Buthelezi supporters. Pan-Africanists have warned that they would join in fighting the A.N.C. if it strikes a separate deal with De Klerk. What Mandela can do to unite blacks and lead them into negotiations will be better known when he is out of prison and able, for the first time in a quarter-century, to act freely...
Cyril Ramaphosa, a leader of the Mass Democratic Movement, says Viljoen's proposal would cause the A.N.C. to "lose ground" if it were simply "one of many groups." Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, head of the 1.5 million-member Inkatha movement and an opponent of the A.N.C.'s socialist orientation, responds, "I shudder to think what would happen to South Africa if we all stood aside and allowed only one black party to negotiate the country's future." To try to hurdle this and other obstacles and preconditions, Viljoen suggests preliminary "talks about talks...
...even have a black majority, with most of the 36 seats taken by white, Asian and "colored" officials who are already part of the structure of apartheid. Most prominent blacks have sworn not to sit in the new assembly, which some have called a toy telephone. Said Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu black homeland: "Black leaders have long passed the point in history where they can be used as rubber stamps for the real intentions of the country's white political leadership...
...participate in the Indaba, just as it refused to participate in elections for the triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU or AZAPO. The mainparticipants in these 'negotiations' have beenwhite businessmen, some academics, Natalofficials, and bantustan governmentrepresentatives--hardly...