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Spears, clubs and battle-axes might seem to be totally outmoded weapons in an age of laser-guided bombs. But in South Africa they retain some power -- in one sense, more power than Winnie Mandela. Contrary to many expectations, it is the carrying of those supposedly "ceremonial" weapons by Zulus, not the possible jailing of Winnie Mandela, that has emerged as the chief obstacle to continuation of black-white negotiations on the nation's future...
Winnie's followers in the African National Congress, who call her Mother of the Nation, did shout outrage at her conviction last week by a white judge (South Africa does not have jury trials). Mandela and two codefendants had been accused of kidnapping four young black men from a Methodist minister's home in Soweto in December 1988 and beating them in a back room of the Mandela house. Judge Michael Stegman found Winnie to be only an accessory to the assault but decided that she had planned the kidnapping. Denouncing her as a "calm, composed, deliberate and unblushing liar...
...Winnie Mandela, however, is free on minimal bail -- roughly $70 -- and pursuing an appeal that could take many months to be decided. Even if she loses, there is some speculation that State President F.W. de Klerk will pardon her rather than jail the wife of his main partner in negotiations to shape a multiracial regime. That partner, A.N.C. deputy president Nelson Mandela, took a mild line. He expressed confidence that his wife's name would eventually be entirely cleared and said he would continue talking to De Klerk...
...gave a peace conference, and nobody came?), it is deadly serious. Continued negotiations would be unlikely to accomplish much anyway until after early July, when the A.N.C. holds its first congress inside South Africa in 30 years and De Klerk finds out whom he will be dealing with next. (Mandela is virtually certain to be re-elected, but other aging leaders who have operated for decades in exile may be replaced by younger blacks who have grown up in the segregated townships.) Nonetheless, Archbishop Tutu warned last week that a suspension of the negotiations now would almost certainly lead...
...since De Klerk took office in 1989. His government has done away with the segregation of facilities, such as public parks and government hospitals -- the last statutory vestiges of so-called petty apartheid -- lifted the ban on the African National Congress and freed many political prisoners, most prominently Nelson Mandela. Now De Klerk is about to pull down what are generally regarded as the last remaining legal pillars of apartheid: the laws that forbid blacks to live in white areas or < own land outside their tribal homelands and require that every South African be classified by race at birth...