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...Mandela is not traveling as a symbol. "It's a political visit," stresses Lindiwe Mabuza, the A.N.C.'s chief representative in Washington. Mandela is seeking two things: first, reassurance that economic sanctions will not be lifted until South Africa is headed toward a peaceful political solution, and second, pledges of funds to rebuild the A.N.C. in South Africa. The organization was legalized only four months ago after almost 30 years of outlaw status. Mandela's message in Washington, says Mabuza, will be, "Why turn off the heat when the water is about to boil...
There is no prospect that Washington will soon cancel the trade embargoes Congress put in place in 1986, and George Bush will probably tell Mandela as much during their planned meeting at the White House. Europe, however, is wavering. Officials of the European Community say they detect movement toward "rewarding" the De Klerk government for its reforms...
...skill with which De Klerk has managed his side of the contest with the A.N.C. Since his election last year to replace the autocratic P.W. Botha, he has done more to ease the country's internal conflict than all his predecessors combined. With the pace of change increasing, Mandela and the A.N.C. are in danger of losing the initiative...
Just after Mandela left the country on his current trip, De Klerk freed another group of political prisoners and lifted the four-year-old national state of emergency, except in the province of Natal, scene of heavy fighting between rival black factions. Though those steps fulfilled more of the A.N.C.'s preconditions for negotiations, the congress has delayed a formal response until July 10. The postponement gave De Klerk an opening to tweak the A.N.C. "We are on the threshold of the real negotiation process," he said. "The A.N.C. must now stop vacillating...
...Mandela's style is leadership by example, and he has not found it easy to take over day-to-day control of the A.N.C. He has had to carry out his onerous public duties while being distracted by a family crisis. Last month the reputation of his controversial wife Winnie was further damaged when her former chief bodyguard was convicted in a Johannesburg court of murdering a teenage black activist. The judge found that the youth had been beaten at the Mandelas' Soweto home in Winnie's presence. Mandela said the government was smearing his wife in court without giving...