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...root of the problem remains Natal province, where bloodletting between A.N.C. supporters and the largely Zulu following of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has claimed nearly 4,000 lives in the past few years. At a joint press conference with De Klerk last week, Mandela charged that police violence against blacks continues -- especially in Natal, where security forces allegedly collaborate with Buthelezi's Inkatha movement -- and complained that key elements of the police force may simply be outside the President's control. Buthelezi again called for a face-to-face meeting with Mandela, a development that many believe would cool...
...danger is that A.N.C. supporters may ignite even more trouble in Natal, where local leaders had argued against suspending the armed struggle. That would invite De Klerk to charge the A.N.C. with violating the spirit of the Pretoria Minute, in which the A.N.C. cease-fire was announced, and threaten to put the peace process on hold. As an A.N.C. leader conceded last week, "There probably won't be real negotiations until the war is over in Natal." But with their compromise in Pretoria, both sides have probably gone too far now for either to turn back...
...government claims that Slovo and other leading communists in the A.N.C. met secretly in the Natal province town of Tongaat last May to discuss a plan code-named Operation Vula to seize power by force if negotiations fail. The meeting, De Klerk suggested, violated the agreement between the government and the A.N.C. to create a peaceful climate for negotiations. Government officials say that in smashing the plot, police uncovered weapons such as rocket- propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles...
Still, De Klerk's skillfully orchestrated reforms have stolen some of Mandela's momentum. Just as the black leader headed for North America, the South African President lifted the state of emergency from all provinces except Natal, the site of fierce fighting between A.N.C. militants and supporters of the rival Inkatha movement. Then, on the eve of Mandela's arrival in New York, De Klerk made good on his promise to revoke the Separate Amenities Act that for nearly four decades had legalized segregation. The South African Parliament repealed the law, opening the country's parks, beaches, swimming pools, services...
...interview last week that the U.S. "will not act precipitously." But he also said that in the Administration's view, all the legal preconditions for lifting sanctions have been met, except for the release of all prisoners and lifting the state of emergency in the province of Natal. Many members of Congress reply that South Africa has not satisfied a condition spelled out in the sanctions law: substantial progress toward dismantling apartheid...