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...historic photo op: Nelson Mandela, head of the African National Congress delegation, sitting down to negotiate with South African President F.W. de Klerk. As three days of talks got under way last week, De Klerk called the government's first formal meeting with the A.N.C. since its founding in 1912 "a milestone...
...there is still a long way to go. The A.N.C. went into the discussions with a firm set of demands that Pretoria must meet before real negotiations can begin: an end to the state of emergency imposed in 1986 and an amnesty for A.N.C. exiles and political prisoners. De Klerk, in turn, insisted that the A.N.C. formally abandon its "armed struggle" and stop the violence sweeping the country...
...think that, more than anyone in this country, it is I who have brought matters to where they are today." The words of President F.W. de Klerk? Or black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela? No, the speaker at last week's press conference was Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 61, the self-confident president of Inkatha, chief minister of KwaZulu and prince of the Zulus...
Whether in his well-cut business suits or ceremonial skins and feathers, Buthelezi is the country's other black leader. When Mandela and De Klerk meet in Cape Town this week to debate obstacles to negotiations, Buthelezi will be conspicuously absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against...
...South African leader again rejected the central demand of the opposition African National Congress: majority rule on the basis of one man, one vote. White power, the President made clear, must be protected. Said De Klerk: "Those who enjoy full political rights at present are not prepared to bow out apologetically from the stage of history...