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...remoteness was apparent when he unwisely tried to visit Boipatong, only to be forced out of the township by an enraged crowd. As he fled, policemen opened fire and killed three more local people. Rather than make plain his concern for the victims and the developing political crisis, De Klerk flew to Spain on a trade mission...
...lost, however. At a meeting last week of the A.N.C.'s executive committee, officials recommitted the organization to negotiations, provided that De Klerk takes several practical steps to curb the violence: terminating covert operations, closing hostels, banning the carrying of cultural weapons. The committee also proposed that Mandela quickly meet with De Klerk to discuss the crisis, which suggests that the A.N.C. is prepared to bargain...
...Boipatong furor seems to have shaken De Klerk. His security forces moved with uncharacteristic speed in tracking down the suspected killers. Police commissioner Johannes van der Merwe said the preliminary police investigation showed that "certain residents" of a Zulu migrant-workers' hostel were involved but denied that government forces participated. De Klerk also agreed to allow international jurists to join a continuing independent inquiry into the violence. Yet the A.N.C. will expect a more permanent change of attitude on the part of the government toward halting the violence if reform is to have any hope...
Despite the deadlock, the A.N.C. expressed a wary readiness to rejoin talks, though it remained unclear whether De Klerk would meet their demands. The A.N.C., meanwhile, vowed to forge ahead with its "mass action" campaign to force De Klerk to hand over power to an interim government of national unity. (See related stories beginning on page...
...called for South Africa's team to withdraw from the Olympic Games. The Congress accused the government of negotiating while fostering violence and charged supporters of its rival, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, with carrying out the massacre with the aid of government security forces. President F.W. de Klerk denied both allegations. But late in the week, a black mine-security guard told a government-appointed commission that police from a former paramilitary unit had joined in the Boipatong killings...