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...CAPE TOWN, South Africa--National Party leader F.W. de Klerk was elected yesterday to a five-year term as president and was criticized immediately by conservative opponents for allowing an anti-apartheid protest that drew an estimated 20,000 people...
...Electoral College, dominated by Parliament members of the National Party, cast a unanimous vote for de Klerk, just one day after the march in Cape Town, the largest legal protest march in South Africa's history...
Moolman Mentz, spokesperson for the Conservative Party, the largest parliamentary opposition, said approval of the Cape Town march was "a knife thrust in the back" of the security forces. Mentz called for immediate Parliamentary debate...
...said an investigation was being conducted into allegations of police misconduct in mixed-race and Black areas around Cape Town on election...
Police were ordered to stay away from the center of Cape Town during the march Wednesday, which was held to protest police brutality...