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...promise to lift the state of emergency won praise from one of his most implacable foes, Member of Parliament Helen Suzman of the Progressive Federal Party...
...Suzman told The Associated Press she was delighted because she assumed it meant the release of detainees...
...almost any other society, such reforms would seem barely adequate at best --and decades or even centuries overdue. But in South Africa, they were seen as significant cracks in the structure of "grand" apartheid envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Helen Suzman, a veteran antiapartheid Member of Parliament, called the proposed changes "probably the most important step forward in 30 years." Botha had said nothing about parliamentary representation for the black majority, she conceded, let alone the right to vote. But, she said, "the abolition of pass laws and influx control, to my mind, is something that should...
There is wide difference of opinion in South Africa over whether the electoral changes represent a strengthening of apartheid or are the first steps in a long retreat. Says Helen Suzman, an opposition M.P. and one of the government's most articulate opponents: "The new constitution is based on apartheid. It leaves out the best feature (of a democratic system), namely universal franchise under the rule of law." Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, a leading black moderate, has declared that those who participated in the recent elections were committing a "mammoth betrayal" of the black population. On the other hand...
...recent overwhelming white support for the constitution indicates that as Helen Suzman put it the constitution safeguards apartheid and not future change. The mentality of many through not all whites is well portrayed in the play "Master Harold and the Boys...