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...that five-year transition period, Mandela will be required to form a government that includes leaders from all the major parties as a safeguard against an A.N.C. monopoly on power. Negotiators have also accepted National Party demands that in sensitive areas like security policy, Mandela could be overruled by one-third of the Cabinet's members...
...most serious sticking point remains De Klerk's demand for permanent power sharing, which the A.N.C. regards as an effort to deprive blacks of the chance for true majority rule. During the period of Mandela's national-unity government, De Klerk proposes that real power be invested in an Executive Committee made up of party leaders and that the presidency become a largely ceremonial job. He is also demanding up-front guarantees of power-sharing in the final constitution, although he rejects suggestions that he is trying to secure a permanent white veto...
...black rule. Although many talk of leaving, a 1992 survey showed that only 27% of English-speaking and 13% of Afrikaans-speaking whites contemplate emigration. Some, like Wilhelm Verwoerd, 29, grandson of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and head of the government that locked up Nelson Mandela, have decided that what they cannot fight they should join. Last month Verwoerd stood on an A.N.C. platform in Parow, a conservative suburb of Cape Town, and confessed his political conversion to fellow Afrikaners. "I am much more than just the grandson of a symbol," he told them...
...Forcing Mandela and De Klerk to compromise is the recognition that time is running out for South Africa's once mighty economy. Apartheid cost the country millions in lost investment. Since 1990, some 500,000 jobs have been wiped out by recession, drought and violence. With South Africa heading toward its fourth straight year of zero growth, the repair task will be that much harder...
...million -- living in urban shanty towns. Like Crossroads, the notorious squatter camp on the edge of Cape Town, these settlements are mostly populated by impoverished peasants from the countryside seeking jobs. The squatter camps are a breeding ground for black extremists who will make life difficult for a Mandela-led government unable to work economic miracles overnight...