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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filled day in the fitful talks among 26 parties that began in December 1991. While dissenters will be able to raise the issue again, a majority nonetheless provisionally set the poll date to bolster the hopes of blacks impatient for more rapid change. Afterward, African National Congress Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa rushed to a previously scheduled gala dinner to receive a Man of the Year award jointly with government negotiator Roelf Meyer. To the cheers of 400 guests, who represented all the country's races, Ramaphosa declared, "We now stand at the gateway of the democracy that so many...
...National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch of hope has been...
...economic ruin has finally brought politicians to their senses. Seven months after negotiations collapsed, the African National Congress approved a compromise with President F.W. de Klerk's National Party that would establish a government with a guaranteed white minority for up to five years. Says A.N.C. Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa: "This is the proposal that will break the deadlock...
...marches in several cities. Most dramatic was the peaceful turnout in Pretoria, the heart of Afrikanerdom and the administrative capital of the country, where 70,000 marchers drew up in the park below President F.W. de Klerk's office and chanted, "De Klerk must go!" Said A.N.C. secretary- general Cyril Ramaphosa: "Next time, Mr. De Klerk, we are going to be inside...
...A.N.C., the two problems go hand in hand. Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa blamed De Klerk for the massacre, accusing the government of pursuing a strategy that "embraces negotiations together with systematic covert actions, including murder." Survivors of the atrocity accused Zulu migrant workers staying at a local hostel and loyal to the Inkatha Freedom Party of carrying out the killings -- but the survivors also claim that government security forces took part in the attack...