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Rumors swirled for years that Pretoria was about to free the Rivonia prisoners, but many seasons of hard labor in the limestone quarries on Robben Island taught Sisulu, now 77, not to expect too much. During a visit to Cape Town's Pollsmoor Prison last Tuesday, his wife Albertina asked Sisulu what he thought about renewed speculation that his freedom was imminent. "No," he scoffed. "Let's just wait...
...three other prisoners named by de Klerk--80-year-year ANC activist Oscar Mpetha, who has been hospitalized in Cape Town; Raymond Mhlaba, a co-defendent of Sisulu and Mandela who lives in Port Elizabeth; and Jafta Masemola, a member of the Pan Africanist guerrilla movement who lives outside Pretoria...
Despite the broedertwis (Afrikaans for a brotherly falling out), F.W., 53, and Willem, 61, retain great affection for each other. They see each other once a month, often at the Pretoria home of their 86-year-old mother, and speak on the phone weekly. Two days before last month's election, F.W. asked, "Don't you want to consider voting Nationalist and making it public?" Recalls Willem: "Then he said, 'That's only a joke between us.' He tries to persuade me, and I try to persuade him. We agree to disagree...
...outlawed in 1960, but never mounted a significant threat to the government in either guise. Today the exiled A.N.C. is looking to change its fortunes. In collaboration with the new domestic antiapartheid coalition, called the Mass Democratic Movement, it has issued a proposal for peace talks with Pretoria. "The question of a negotiated settlement," said Thabo Mbeki, 47, the heir apparent to the A.N.C.'s ailing President Oliver Tambo, 71, "is very much on the agenda...
...that could bring the economy to a halt. Many South African businessmen say privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution in sight...