Word: klerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every few months, President F.W. de Klerk gathers his Cabinet colleagues together and heads for the bushveld. In a camp in the Transvaal province near the Botswana border, they thrash out political strategy, yet find time to sit around a fire and eat wild game. The idea is to work, but also to relax under the wide African...
Last week that sky seemed to be falling in on De Klerk, who returned from his latest two-day retreat to face a credibility crisis that is growing with bush-fire speed. Exposes in the Johannesburg Weekly Mail showed that the ( government, despite repeated denials and stonewalling, had provided covert funds via the South African police to underwrite Inkatha, a group battling the African National Congress for the support of the country's nearly 29 million blacks. By Pretoria's admission, Inkatha and an allied labor union received at least...
...African National Congress has repeatedly accused Pretoria of working hand in glove with its bitter rival in black politics, the Inkatha Freedom Party, headed by Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. President F.W. de Klerk always denied improper favoritism, but last week he was forced to admit that the government had given covert funds to Inkatha in 1989 and '90 to organize % political rallies. A police spokesman said Buthelezi got the aid because he opposed international sanctions against South Africa...
...Klerk came clean after the Johannesburg Weekly Mail exposed the secret $90,000 subsidy in a front-page story based on official documents. The report also raised doubts about the government's denials that security forces aided Inkatha's armed attacks on A.N.C. supporters...
A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela once again demanded that De Klerk fire his ministers of Law and Order and Defense. The newspaper's disclosure, Mandela warned, could derail talks on a new constitution...