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...there are more fundamental reasons for the decision to withdraw from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). The A.N.C. is deeply frustrated by both the one-sided power De Klerk has wielded in the negotiations and their failure to yield tangible change...
...this time because the Boipatong massacre came amid indications that De Klerk was beginning to drag his feet on ceding full-fledged democracy. He started to take a harder line immediately following the March referendum in which white voters overwhelmingly endorsed his reform program. In May, Round 2 of CODESA ended in failure largely because De Klerk's negotiators adamantly insisted on powerful checks and balances amounting to an effective white veto in a future political system. De Klerk seemed to be turning his back on black expectations...
What I had indicated was that both the CCSR and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), as they voted shareholder proposals related to South Africa this spring, would pay close attention to these events, including, among other things, the progress of talks at Codesa (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) and Nelson Mandela's call for renewed U.S. investment in South Africa once an interim government is in place...
Measurable steps toward that solution began in December, when 19 political groups representing all races created a forum called the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). It set up five working groups, and one of them reached agreement on "basic principles" involved in establishing an interim government. When CODESA's second plenary session is held next month, A.N.C. officials say, agreement on an interim government could be reached. "It will," says Mandela, "supervise the transition from an apartheid to a democratic state...
...right wing. On that he was also successful, largely discrediting the Conservatives, but they and those who are even more extreme have not yet rolled over. Party leader Treurnicht insists that "the struggle for our freedom and survival continues" and says he will refuse renewed invitations to join the CODESA talks...