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...Mandela: Mr. De Klerk had the courage to come out openly and say, "Apartheid has failed. The best way is negotiations." We must compliment him for that. But in spite of the fact that he made this commendable contribution, it was a foregone conclusion that his party was going to disappear. After the next five years, I don't think anybody will ever hear of the National Party. He applied dirty-trick tactics in this campaign. Very dirty, racist tactics. Nevertheless we beat them. But Mr. De Klerk has made a contribution. Without him, we could not have made this...
...Mandela: I don't regard the future with any pessimism. I have been having discussions with the full general staff of the South African Defense Force. I have had discussions with all the police generals who are responsible for policy. Three days ago I met ((right-wing leader)) General Constand Viljoen and had very fruitful discussions with him. We made a plan as to how to deal with the demands of the Afrikaners. ((Viljoen, whose party won 2% of the vote, is seeking an Afrikaner state.)) The entry of Buthelezi into the elections and now the fact that...
...Mandela: My health is good. Of course the strain has been very great. One of these days I am going to take a gun and go and shoot, but don't tell the environmentalists. One time I shot a kudu bull. By the time I returned from the game reserve and landed at the airport, there was a demonstration. "You are a murderer! You are a murderer!" I am going to go to the bush and rest...
Newly elected, Nelson Mandela gets down to business...
...time last Thursday when Al Gore was preparing to lead the U.S. delegation to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, the American most deserving of that trip lay in a Washington hospital. Randall Robinson, who spent years mobilizing the opposition to South Africa's oppressive regime, was in the midst of a hunger strike protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of sending Haitian refugees back to their misery...