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...also wants a constitutional provision for a "market-oriented economic system." The A.N.C. opposes the provision but denies it is wedded to a plan for blanket nationalization of South Africa's biggest corporations. "There is nothing in the thinking of the A.N.C. that says we must nationalize," says Thabo Mbeki, one of the group's chief negotiators...
...much give is there on either part? Viljoen says the government is prepared to negotiate everything, including its proposal for "group rights," but few believe the whites would give up that demand. A.N.C. leaders have acknowledged a need to somehow provide protections for minorities. But, says Thabo Mbeki, the group's foreign minister, "we will argue that group rights are the same as apartheid...
...significant threat to the government in either guise. Today the exiled A.N.C. is looking to change its fortunes. In collaboration with the new domestic antiapartheid coalition, called the Mass Democratic Movement, it has issued a proposal for peace talks with Pretoria. "The question of a negotiated settlement," said Thabo Mbeki, 47, the heir apparent to the A.N.C.'s ailing President Oliver Tambo, 71, "is very much on the agenda...
Shortly after African National Congress Leader Govan Mbeki was set free this month, a group of his supporters held a rally at Johannesburg's Khotso House, headquarters of a dozen antiapartheid groups. Only a year earlier, white occupants of an apartment house across the street had caused a minor riot at the same spot by tossing flowerpots and other missiles onto the crowd from their balconies. This time curious residents again peered from their balconies, but no one down below thought of ducking. Even though the apartment building is restricted by law to whites only, most of the onlookers were...
...Mbeki emerged from his long incarceration unbowed. "The ideas for which I went to jail and for which the ANC stands," he declared, "I still embrace." The next day the government "banned" Mbeki, forbidding the South African press to quote him. Nonetheless, his release could not help fueling speculation that other jailed ANC figures might also be freed -- perhaps including Nelson Mandela, the group's guiding spirit...