Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The plans were adopted late Saturday at a closed session of the largest anti-apartheid conference ever held in South Africa. It was attended by 4662 Black, white, Indian and mixed-race delegates from 2128 organizations.
Several major Black organizations to the left and right of mainstream anti-apartheid groups either boycotted the conference or were not invited.
However, delegates adopted a resolution saying de Klerk's proposals were "designed to enmesh our organizations and people in schemes to maintain the status quo."
Most delegates were aligned to some degree with the outlawed African National Congress guerrilla movement and affiliated groups in South Africa.
The most notable absentees were Inkatha, a relatively conservative Zulu organization opposed to the ANC's militant tactics, and so-called Africanist groups, which oppose the ANC's philosophy of non-racism.