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...have you not been able to end the fighting in Natal...
...were a question of conflict between Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha ((movement)) and the A.N.C., we would have solved this matter long ago. But my problem is the government, because what is happening in Natal is no longer a clash between the A.N.C. and Inkatha. The government has taken advantage of the clash between the two organizations to crush the A.N.C. and eliminate its membership in Natal. I have asked De Klerk the simple question, Why has the government failed to suppress that violence for more than 4 1/2 years, and when almost 4,000 people have died? And De Klerk...
Just after Mandela left the country on his current trip, De Klerk freed another group of political prisoners and lifted the four-year-old national state of emergency, except in the province of Natal, scene of heavy fighting between rival black factions. Though those steps fulfilled more of the A.N.C.'s preconditions for negotiations, the congress has delayed a formal response until July 10. The postponement gave De Klerk an opening to tweak the A.N.C. "We are on the threshold of the real negotiation process," he said. "The A.N.C. must now stop vacillating...
...President F.W. de Klerk is getting jittery, he doesn't show it. In last week's by-election in the Natal district of Umlazi, his ruling National Party barely retained a safe seat against a strong showing by the Conservative Party. Undeterred, the President announced another move, guaranteed to further rile right-wingers: he lifted the four-year-old state of emergency in three of the country's four provinces. The exception: Natal, where largely black-on- black factional fighting recently flared...
...Inkatha's latest rampages in Natal make a mockery of Buthelezi's desire to be the prince of peace. There is no evidence that Buthelezi personally ordered the attacks, and he has strongly condemned the slaughter. Inkatha leaders claim that the upsurge in violence followed A.N.C. provocations, and in fact the bloodshed erupted in 1987 largely because of the A.N.C.'s determination to wipe out Buthelezi's influence...