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That right is challenged by 1.5 million Zulus, who pledge their loyalty to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He claims an equal right to participate in any negotiations, and has kept close ties to Mandela personally. But Buthelezi's Inkatha movement is suspect to many blacks for its history of cooperation with the government. The A.N.C. despises Buthelezi as a white puppet, and violent rivalry between the two organizations over the past two years has left more than 1,200 blacks dead. Also at odds with the nonracial A.N.C. is the much smaller Pan Africanist Congress, whose slogan is Africa...
While the P.A.C. has limited grass-roots support, its vow to fight to the end is endorsed by radical elements in the A.N.C. Mandela's biggest challenge may come from within the A.N.C., where some in the new generation of leaders resent his automatic resumption of leadership and consider him too willing to compromise. One of the most powerful of the younger figures, Cyril Ramaphosa, the 37-year-old general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, declared that Mandela's status "was no different from the status of any other member." Others were angered by Mandela's presumption...
...chief negotiator, De Klerk's sole precondition for A.N.C. participation is a "peaceful commitment to a negotiated resolution." That is something the A.N.C. has yet to address definitively. Two weeks ago, the A.N.C. national executive in Lusaka adopted a platform, based on a ten-point plan sent by Mandela through intermediaries, affirming the group's commitment to negotiations and offering a truce if De Klerk meets its conditions for talks...
...positions, the A.N.C. says it will settle for no less than one man, one vote, black majority rule, while the government demands that an equal share of power for whites be written into the constitution. But the A.N.C. flatly rejects any political system based on racial groups. According to Mandela's lawyers, he has told the government he remains committed "to a single nonracial democratic South Africa with a single Parliament on a common franchise...
...Mandela is the sole black leader in South Africa who has a chance to bring both sides to compromise. Despite his advancing years and his near fatal bout with tuberculosis in 1988, he was described by a visitor to Victor Verster as "very nimble, alert, self-confident, charismatic, not a mere symbolic leader but someone who is in touch with events." Few others possess the pragmatism that Mandela has honed over the years, which may enable him to grow from a facilitator of negotiations to a reconciler...