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Forcing Mandela and De Klerk to compromise is the recognition that time is running out for South Africa's once mighty economy. Apartheid cost the country millions in lost investment. Since 1990, some 500,000 jobs have been wiped out by recession, drought and violence. With South Africa heading toward its fourth straight year of zero growth, the repair task will be that much harder...
...will be handicapped by its lack of experience in government, and both the National Party and Inkatha are certain to exploit the competence factor as well as employ scare tactics that draw attention to the A.N.C.'s links with the Communist Party of South Africa. Although De Klerk says he will be out to win the election, his basic goal is to get at least 34% of the vote. That way he can block any constitution the A.N.C. tries to ram through the constituent assembly. Wild cards in the electoral deck will be the 3 million colored, or mixed race...
...from democracy in South Africa to major political interviews -- are often long in the planning. In May of last year, deputy managing editor John F. Stacks, while lunching in Manhattan with Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod, hatched the idea of conducting paired interviews with Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk. The sessions, Stacks reasoned, might be not only newsworthy but historic...
...story most meaningful, and after last week's multiparty agreement on a date for the country's first free elections, he finally had one. Momentous occasions, however, can be the most difficult times in which to secure interviews, especially from two such important individuals. After much negotiation, De Klerk agreed to talk at his office in Pretoria. During the actual interview, he was outwardly relaxed, chain-smoking and joking about golf. For his part, Mandela consented to an even less formal face-to-face at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Dressed in a casual Harvard sweatshirt, Mandela graciously met TIME...
...TIME correspondents and editors involved in arranging and conducting the interviews have personal perspectives on affairs in South Africa. Karsten Prager, managing editor of TIME International, hadn't been in South Africa since 1991, and noticed a change in the political climate: "One comes away from conversations with De Klerk and Mandela with the distinct sense that somehow, sometime, South Africa will be able to resolve its conflicts peacefully." MacLeod recalls that a few months ago, Mandela visited him at home and bounced the bureau chief's infant daughter on his knee. Says MacLeod: "I told Mandela that although South...