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...also renewed its promise to end a controversial program that has forcibly relocated some 3.5 million blacks to the homelands in the past 25 years. For the moment, the 8 million blacks who live in the four homelands that have accepted independent status from Pretoria--Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei--will still be considered foreign nationals. They are expected to receive dual citizenship by the end of the year. Other blacks living in rural areas are basically free to seek jobs in cities whenever they choose, although they remain barred from residing in areas reserved for whites. That worries some...
Although Hall was ousted from his farm in Ciskei 13 years ago, when the so- called black homeland became "independent," he is now solidly re- established on rich terrain 60 miles from Cape Town. He looks back on apartheid as "a dreadful fiasco" for everyone concerned. "We're doing well again," he says. "I reckoned it was time I started giving something back." He is one of an increasing number of whites who are trying to help penniless black workers become property owners...
Hall is one of the early innovators. In the years since he was expelled from Ciskei, he has built his new farm, Whitehall, into one of the leading export operations in the Western Cape's fruit belt. This year he put a third of his holdings into a trust for his 170 permanent employees...
Buthelezi's objections raised doubts about whether multiparty talks could resume by the end of the year as De Klerk and Mandela hoped. The peace process has managed, however, to survive despite the Sept. 7 killing of 29 A.N.C. protesters who marched on the "independent" homeland of Ciskei. In findings released last week, Justice Richard Goldstone criticized A.N.C. officials for exposing their followers to danger but reserved his strongest condemnation for Ciskei authorities, saying "their indiscriminate shooting at innocent demonstrators was morally indefensible...
...arms-for-export approach: If the U.S. can't afford any more high-tech weapons, find some Third World potentate who can. Saudi Arabia gets its F-15s; Taiwan gets F-16s (in violation, incidentally, of a 1982 agreement signed with China). Why not atom bombs for Ciskei? Cruise missiles for Serbia? Lofty moral objections aside, one problem with the export approach is that it puts the U.S. government in the unseemly position of pimping for the military- industrial complex -- using taxpayers' money, for example, to set up arms fairs abroad. The other problem is that today's arms customer...