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Hani's death moved even hardened veterans of the antiapartheid movement to tears. Nelson Mandela's estranged wife Winnie, one of Hani's closest colleagues, broke into sobs as she visited the crime scene. Joe Slovo, who handed control of South Africa's Communist Party to Hani in 1991 after being stricken with cancer, told a radio station in a trembling voice that he was "shocked and shaken" and needed "time to collect my thoughts...
...sending his condolences, President De Klerk appealed to black leaders to keep their followers under control. In a rare nationally televised address, Nelson Mandela replied with an exhortation of his own: "This killing must stop. We must not permit ourselves to be provoked. Let us respond with dignity...
...plan is approved by all major parties when full-scale negotiations resume in March, the first free elections will be held by early 1994, when A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela will probably replace De Klerk as President of South Africa. The deal, under which the A.N.C. will call for an end to international sanctions, involves significant concessions from both sides. A < unity government including De Klerk's party would delay pure majority rule for the A.N.C. until 1999. But De Klerk's party in turn has abandoned its dream of writing a scheme for permanent power sharing into the new constitution...
...forces. Thus his crackdown on these mavericks has almost certainly scored him some valuable points -- enough, perhaps, that in spite of enduring a year of violence, crime and political stalemate, South Africans are beginning to see hope for l993. "We are closing the year on a high note," Nelson Mandela told the Sowetan, Johannesburg's black newspaper...
With Nelson Mandela's release in February 1990 and the declared dismantling of apartheid, the United States appears to be operating under the assumption that South Africa is well on its way to becoming a multiracial democracy...