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When Winnie Mandela appeared after a visit to her husband at the Victor Verster prison farm near Cape Town last week, she was radiant and smiling. For the first time Nelson Mandela had talked about making arrangements for his homecoming. According to family lawyer Dullah Omar, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962 was "buoyant, confident and raring...
While no date is set for Mandela's freedom, President F.W. de Klerk is almost certain to let him go within the next few weeks, possibly during the opening session of the South African parliament in early February. Mandela's release could be followed by the unbanning of the African National Congress, the liberation of political detainees and the return of A.N.C. exiles to South Africa, helping prepare the way for a round-table conference to discuss a new constitution that will finally give blacks the vote...
...Mandela's top priority might be negotiating peace among blacks. A unity conference held by the A.N.C.-allied Mass Democratic Movement in Johannesburg last week was most notable for its failure to include its two main rivals: < Inkatha, the Zulu-based organization led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who heads a Pretoria-created homeland; and the Pan-Africanists, an A.N.C. splinter group that seeks to crush white "colonialists." Much of the tension stems from the A.N.C.'s insistence that it alone can negotiate on behalf of blacks...
...Mandela and De Klerk chatted, a virulent outbreak of black-on-black violence continued to spread in Natal province. Officials said at least 71 people have been killed since Dec. 1 in a turf war involving A.N.C. and Buthelezi supporters. Pan-Africanists have warned that they would join in fighting the A.N.C. if it strikes a separate deal with De Klerk. What Mandela can do to unite blacks and lead them into negotiations will be better known when he is out of prison and able, for the first time in a quarter-century, to act freely...
...Moscow mourns the death of a leading dissident, the President confronts attacks from both reformers and reactionaries. -- How Nelson Mandela spends his days...