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Barak sounded his warning in the same week that South Africa marked the 20th anniversary of the decision by the then President F.W. De Klerk to free Nelson Mandela and begin negotiating an end to apartheid. It was certainly a courageous decision by De Klerk, but it's important to remember that it was not some epiphany about the immorality of apartheid that changed his mind. By 1989, with the Cold War essentially over, Pretoria had gotten the message that it could no longer count on U.S. support to head off sanctions and other international pressure in the name...
...South Africa Tibet Tussle The South African government barred the Dalai Lama from attending a March 27 Johannesburg peace conference, citing the spiritual leader's tense relations with China but denying it was pressured by Beijing. Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and F.W. de Klerk protested by pulling out of the event, a walk-up to the 2010 World Cup. Organizers subsequently canceled the conference...
...convincing them to sign the "Davos Declaration." In the years that followed, Davos became home to some of the most memorable diplomatic moments in history including the first ministerial meetings held between North and South Korea in 1989, the milestone sitdown between South African President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela in 1992 and the 1994 draft agreement on Gaza and Jericho reached by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and PLO head Yasser Arafat...
...adversary (as well as of intervening to prevent the prosecution of key allies), while Zuma's supporters threatened violence against those who stand in his way. Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the ANC of betraying the promise of the Mandela years, and former apartheid President F.W. de Klerk, who also served as a deputy president under Mandela, charged it with repeatedly flouting the national constitution. Clearly, the unimpeachable political and moral authority enjoyed by the ANC under Mandela, thanks to its leadership of the anti-apartheid struggle, has been been squandered. The generation of South Africans...
...Apartheid era President F.W. de Klerk, who also served as deputy president under Mandela, has begun a campaign to highlight what he claims is ANC abuse of power. "Everywhere the dividing lines between the state and the ruling movement are becoming more blurred," De Klerk told the Cape Town Press Club in June. The "rights and values" which he and Mandela enshrined in the country's 1994 constitution, "are under severe pressure," he said. It says something for how far the ANC has fallen from the moral high ground that in today's South Africa, a former apartheid ruler...