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...pursuing an appeal that could take many months to be decided. Even if she loses, there is some speculation that State President F.W. de Klerk will pardon her rather than jail the wife of his main partner in negotiations to shape a multiracial regime. That partner, A.N.C. deputy president Nelson Mandela, took a mild line. He expressed confidence that his wife's name would eventually be entirely cleared and said he would continue talking to De Klerk...
...considerably since De Klerk took office in 1989. His government has done away with the segregation of facilities, such as public parks and government hospitals -- the last statutory vestiges of so-called petty apartheid -- lifted the ban on the African National Congress and freed many political prisoners, most prominently Nelson Mandela. Now De Klerk is about to pull down what are generally regarded as the last remaining legal pillars of apartheid: the laws that forbid blacks to live in white areas or < own land outside their tribal homelands and require that every South African be classified by race at birth...
...Nelson Boyce '92, a member of the Black Students Association (BSA), said that more than 50 students attended the gathering, which he called "a meeting of minds to increase Black unity on campus...
Armed with spears, knives, axes and the occasional AK-47, rival supporters of the African National Congress and the Zulu-led Inkatha Freedom Party fought one another day and night in the townships of Johannesburg last week. At least 100 were killed, including two nephews of Nelson Mandela. The struggle between the two groups has escalated this year, and President F.W. de Klerk warned last week that if the violence is not stopped, the country faces civil...
...Nelson Boyce'92, the newly elected BSA representative to the Minority Students Alliance, said "all these names shouldn't even exist...