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...HAZY SUN SET OVER THE GREEN hills of blood-soaked Natal Province last week, Jabulani Shibe tried to do his part to broker the differences between the African National Congress and its bitter foes in the Inkatha Freedom Party. Shibe, 27, a laborer, joined eight of his neighbors in KwaMashu, a black township near Durban, and visited an Inkatha hostel. Suddenly, a group of Inkatha men drew guns and bundled Shibe and his companions into a minibus. They drove through the darkness to a nearby railroad station, where an armed and angry mob of Inkatha supporters was waiting...
Such public bellicosity was too much for President F.W. de Klerk, who had been under A.N.C. pressure for weeks to crack down on Buthelezi and Inkatha. De Klerk could hesitate no longer. He declared a state of emergency in Natal Province, which includes the KwaZulu homeland where Buthelezi is chief minister. It will now be up to South Africa's army and police to control the incessant political violence in the region and make sure that voting in the country's first all-race elections can take place there on April 26, 27 and 28, despite Inkatha's fierce opposition...
Setting the trend, the Afrikaner Volksfront has a similar, but more institutionalized, bond with Gatsha Buthelezi and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Natal. Their Freedom Alliance poses a serious threat to the prospect of free and fair elections, a threat no-one could have perceived even a year...
...Freedom Party turned down a last-minute package of concessions from African National Congress president Nelson Mandela intended to avert a threatened boycott of the historic election set for April 26-28. Mandela eased up on A.N.C. demands for strong central authority by offering provincial governments more autonomy. In Natal province, gunmen attacked A.N.C. supporters, killing...
...Crowd of nearly 200 listened to Jeff Radebe, deputy chair of the ANC in Southern Natal, express his faith that the democratic vote will ultimately result in the election of Nelson Mandela as President...