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President F.W. de Klerk promised major changes in apartheid last week -- but not yet in the system's mainstays. The reformist politician said he would pursue repeal of the Separate Amenities Act, a 1953 law that provides for segregation of public facilities. Disappointingly, De Klerk pledged reform but not repeal of the laws that define residential apartheid, reserve just 13% of the nation's land for the black majority, and classify all citizens by race...
...1920s de facto apartheid was a feature of South African life. The poorest whites possessed something that the most prosperous blacks could never have: the vote. Subsequent governments flirted with Nazi Germany, then embraced liberal policies, but the racism endured. With all the warm pronunciations of President F.W. de Klerk, it prevails even amid the current talk of reforms...
...this the new South Africa promised by the unbanning of the African National Congress and the release of Nelson Mandela? As the A.N.C. prepared for its first meeting with the government of President F.W. de Klerk -- an April 11 session has already been called off by the A.N.C. in protest at the Sebokeng shootings -- the spiral of violence was forcing Mandela to face a sober reality: that he may have wielded more moral authority as the world's most famous prisoner than he does as a political leader in his second month of freedom...
Mandela's damaged stature has achieved an important aim of De Klerk's white government: to demystify the A.N.C. and make clear that Mandela is only one of many black players. Before his next session with the A.N.C., De Klerk plans to meet with the leaders of the country's six self-governing black homelands and with the chairmen of the ministers' councils of the "colored" (mixed race) and Indian chambers to discuss "the structuring of the process of negotiation." The talks with the A.N.C. will set the ground rules for future bargaining on majority rule that will presumably include...
...addressed by the two black leaders was called off, and few hold out much hope for the talks. Last week Buthelezi dismissed the power of the A.N.C. as a set of "myths that have now been exploded." Obviously miffed that he was not to be included in De Klerk's session with the A.N.C., the Zulu chief predicted that at the first sign of trouble the A.N.C. would "pack its bags and go home." The comment does not bode well for black cooperation as South Africa tries to negotiate its way to a more enlightened future...