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...home township of Soweto, children danced around Mandela's house singing "Mandela is coming!" Declared a jubilant Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Here he is, this man who has such a crucial role to play in the making of this new South Africa...
...Mandela has already committed himself to serve as the "facilitator" for negotiations between the black majority and the white minority government to draw up a new constitution granting power to all races. In fact, there will have to be several stages before that. While State President F.W. de Klerk's legalization of the African National Congress earlier this month was accompanied by relaxation measures that met most of the A.N.C.'s preconditions, the 3 1/2-year-old state of emergency remains in place and up to 300 activists are still in jail. That situation, says Mandela, will have to change...
...A.N.C. will re-enter the country's political life and who will take part in talks must still be worked out. Mandela is almost universally viewed as a leader of the A.N.C., but he now holds no official post in the Congress and is technically responsible to its leaders in Lusaka. He will have to work out with them just what formal role he will play...
...Klerk first announced that Mandela would be released "without delay" on Feb. 2. Then came a nerve-racking interval, recalling the years of slice-at-a- time tactics the government has used to neutralize black reaction. Mandela was kept waiting while the government whittled away at its proviso that he must renounce violence. Last Saturday De Klerk simply declared, "I came to the conclusion that he is committed to a peaceful solution and a peaceful process." Pretoria had long worried that when Mandela appeared on the streets of Soweto once again, black townships all over the country would explode into...
...A.N.C. to stop talking about continuing armed struggle and offer some conciliatory gesture. "It is only fair," he says, "that in answer to the considerable strides the State President has taken, some steps should be taken on the other side to narrow the gap." Viljoen expects that Mandela will be not just a facilitator of talks but a central figure in negotiating a new South African constitution. "His stature and qualities are quite clear to anybody who has ever talked with him," said Viljoen. At the same time, he said, if the A.N.C. does no more than repeat its preconditions...