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President F.W. de Klerk's policy of dismantling apartheid has reaped its biggest foreign policy reward to date. Meeting in Luxembourg last week, the 12-nation European Community voted unanimously to lift the group's remaining economic sanctions against Pretoria. As soon as it is formalized, the move will end a five-year-old ban on the importation of South African iron, steel and gold coins that had accounted for $700 million in annual trade before the embargo went into effect...
...decades, South Africa's policy of apartheid has rested upon a set of rigid laws reserving 87% of the land for the nation's white minority and requiring strict housing segregation. Last week President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation that would repeal all racial restrictions on land ownership and permit all South Africans to live where they choose...
...trial of Winnie Mandela was never destined to be a simple affair. It was surrounded by demonstrations and set in the context of delicate constitutional negotiations between the African National Congress and the government of President F.W. de Klerk. But last week the kidnapping-and-assault case against the wife of A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela, for which she could face a death sentence, blossomed into a bizarre tale of fear and intrigue...
...rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil presented Pretoria with grave political problems, including the imposition of stronger international sanctions, which President F.W. de Klerk is still trying to solve...
These militant strategies may keep youths motivated for the cause, but they do little to prepare them for a painful reality ahead. The "new South Africa," as Mandela and De Klerk both like to call it, may in many ways be as bad or worse than...