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...nine-month deadlock, the meeting included 26 delegates from the widest spectrum of antagonists ever put together on South African soil. Besides the African National Congress and the governing National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch of hope has been...
...very distinguished Africanist and a wonderful scholar and person," said DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. "It's a wonderful appointment...
Appiah, the head tutor of Afro-Am, said Blier's work as an Africanist will boost his department's capacity for comparative studies...
...other side, the Patriotic Front of 90 mostly black organizations forged last October has split. The far-left Pan Africanist Congress, which still uses the slogan "One settler, one bullet," denounces the convention as a sellout to whites. So does the Azanian People's Organization, a small black- consciousness group...
Only recently has the A.N.C. begun to recognize its sagging popularity. A campaign to increase its membership by 1 million has failed by half. Following Mandela's release, A.N.C. members disparaged smaller rival organizations such as the Pan Africanist Congress and the Azanian People's Organization. Now, seeing the danger of fragmenting the antiapartheid camp, the A.N.C. has sought to bring the others into a "patriotic front." But the congress's performance has scared off those whites who were generally sympathetic. "Many have decided to remain aloof," says Jan van Eck, a Member of Parliament for the liberal Democratic Party...