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...REFORM PROCESS began in early 1990 with Nelson Mandela's release and the unbanning of the ANC and other antiapartheid organizations. De Klerk can be credited for single-handedly changing the ruling National Party's course from pursuing a cosmetic reform program to actively dismantling apartheid...
...that both the CCSR and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), as they voted shareholder proposals related to South Africa this spring, would pay close attention to these events, including, among other things, the progress of talks at Codesa (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) and Nelson Mandela's call for renewed U.S. investment in South Africa once an interim government is in place...
...spite of the triumph of reform at the ballot box, De Klerk's main negotiating partner, Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), could not share the euphoria. The country's 30 million black citizens still suffer profound inequalities in housing, education, ( medical care and other basic necessities. As Mandela watched whites streaming to the polls, he said, "I still cannot vote in my own country." But when it was over, he smiled and said at last, "I am very pleased...
...Democratic South Africa (CODESA). It set up five working groups, and one of them reached agreement on "basic principles" involved in establishing an interim government. When CODESA's second plenary session is held next month, A.N.C. officials say, agreement on an interim government could be reached. "It will," says Mandela, "supervise the transition from an apartheid to a democratic state...
...ruling National Party's policy planners. He rebelled against P.W. Botha's autocratic rule and helped move the party toward moderation. "There was always this attitude that the world can go to hell," he says. "Now Afrikaners have become aware of the outside world." De Klerk and Mandela are hoping that all white South Africans have finally, permanently come out of the laager and into the world...