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...vice president said those who doubt the possibility for change should consider that "A decade ago, who would have thought that the Berlin Wall would have fallen? That Nelson Mandela would be free? That Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat would shake hands on the White House lawn...
Concessions were made by the other side as well. Mandela's A.N.C., a strong advocate of centralized government, agreed to a system that will provide a share in decision making to the nine provincial legislatures and police forces. And despite intense pressure to place A.N.C. supporters in government jobs, Mandela agreed not to throw 1.2 million employees of the white-dominated civil service out on the street...
...cavernous convention center and signed, one by one, a draft constitution giving equal rights to South Africans of every color. The last-minute delay was nothing to blacks who had waited generations for this moment. "We have reached the end of an era," declared a triumphant Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress. President F.W. de Klerk agreed: "South Africa will never be the same again...
...fear is that this interim constitution, which puts in place a government of national unity for the next five years, will not fulfill its promise of a reasonable balance of power to those who distrust Mandela and the A.N.C. De Klerk called the draft "a product of compromise" that could be either "a charter for peace" or "a prescription for powermongering." Ominously, the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party and several white separatist groups -- which have rejected the negotiations, threatened to boycott the elections and even hinted at armed resistance -- stayed away from the signing. They continue to insist that regions...
...interim constitution is a heartening milestone in South Africa's bloodied march toward democracy. At least 12,000 people have died in factional violence in the four years since Mandela was released from prison and De Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. But shared power is not a South African tradition. With Mandela's A.N.C. enjoying a commanding lead in the pre- election polls, die-hard supporters of racial separation or ethnic self- determination must decide whether to accept the new government as a legitimate institution or work to undermine...