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Spears, clubs and battle-axes might seem to be totally outmoded weapons in an age of laser-guided bombs. But in South Africa they retain some power -- in one sense, more power than Winnie Mandela. Contrary to many expectations, it is the carrying of those supposedly "ceremonial" weapons by Zulus, not the possible jailing of Winnie Mandela, that has emerged as the chief obstacle to continuation of black-white negotiations on the nation's future...
...Klerk called on the groups' leaders to join him at a "summit on violence" in late May, but the A.N.C. has declared it will boycott the meeting. The A.N.C. alleges that security forces side with the Zulus in the fighting, often leaving A.N.C. members to be slaughtered by Inkatha supporters, and has set a May 9 deadline for the government to dismiss the two Cabinet ministers responsible for security matters and to stop the bloodshed. The A.N.C. says it will withdraw from all talks on the country's future if this deadline is not met, but De Klerk maintained last...
...A.N.C. officially renounced antigovernment violence last year, Mandela still endorses mass demonstrations and strikes; Buthelezi calls them "anarchistic." He opposes the A.N.C. demand that economic sanctions continue against South Africa until blacks gain power. For its part, the A.N.C. accuses Inkatha of collaborating with the government by encouraging Zulus to live in their segregated homeland. Meanwhile, the A.N.C. has been burdened by the troubles of Mandela's wife Winnie, who faces trial as early as this week on charges of kidnapping and assault in connection with the 1988 death of a youth who allegedly died at the hands...
...fresh outbreaks of black- against-black violence or a growing backlash from disaffected whites. Less than 24 hours after Mandela and Buthelezi embraced last week, an A.N.C.-Inkatha clash killed at least eight people and injured 60 others in Natal province, where most of the country's 6 million Zulus live. In Pretoria police used nightsticks and tear gas to battle 5,000 white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded an end to political reforms. The black violence and right...
Afrikaner soul searching even extends to such a holy of holies as the Day of the Covenant, the annual Dec. 16 commemoration that marks the Afrikaner victory over the Zulus in the 1838 Battle of Blood River. Now that De Klerk is calling for the races to live together in one nation, some Afrikaners feel a national holiday glorifying the white man's victory over the black man is more inappropriate than ever...