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...Klerk's antiapartheid moves seemed almost to be following a script written in Washington. When the U.S. Congress imposed economic sanctions in 1986, lawmakers said they would lift the ban only if Pretoria enacted a list of major reforms. These ranged from the release of Mandela to the abolition of the Population Registration Act. Now De Klerk has fulfilled or promised to meet each demand, leaving only the release of all political prisoners to be carried out. Pretoria is clearly hoping for a swift lifting of sanctions. However, U.S. officials said last week that the prisoner issue remained a sticking...
Despite their differences, the A.N.C. and Inkatha have tentatively agreed to De Klerk's proposal for an all-party conference -- or Great Indaba -- to help design a multiracial legislature that would replace the white-dominated Parliament. The A.N.C. wants Pretoria to free all remaining political prisoners and allow exiles to return to South Africa before convening the Indaba. If such conditions are met and the talks remain on track, political analysts say elections could be held under a new constitution by late...
...conference ended with a warning that the A.N.C. would pull out of talks with Pretoria unless the government freed all political prisoners and permitted all exiles to return by next April 30. Delegates also threatened a campaign of strikes and boycotts to back up their demands. President F.W. de Klerk warned in turn against such "outmoded" radicalism, calling on the A.N.C. to decide whether it wanted peaceful, negotiated solutions or a return to the confrontations of the past...
Though he suffered a stroke 16 months ago, he was able to give the opening address at the first A.N.C. conference held inside South Africa in three decades. He surprised many delegates by calling for a re-evaluation of economic sanctions against Pretoria. "It is no longer enough," he said, "to repeat trite slogans." The A.N.C. leadership decided otherwise. The next day the conference unanimously passed a resolution rejecting any change in its sanctions policy...
...that the press found her guilty before she appears in court. "I was unable to give her protection when I was in prison," he explains. "((But)) I am now here." Should the verdict go against Mandela's wife, it could further endanger the delicate negotiations he is conducting with Pretoria...