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A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela once again demanded that De Klerk fire his ministers of Law and Order and Defense. The newspaper's disclosure, Mandela warned, could derail talks on a new constitution...
Some American blacks and liberals nonetheless denounced Bush's action as premature, an opinion also voiced by A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela. The opponents contend, correctly, that South Africa is still far from multiracial democracy. Substantive negotiations on a new constitution that would permit blacks to vote and share in governing the country have not even begun. The critics argue that without the continued pressure of international sanctions, full equality will never come...
...movement has also bungled its relations with Inkatha, which may have as many as 1 million members. While congress leaders consider the Zulu chief a sellout for serving as chief minister of the Pretoria-created KwaZulu homeland, Mandela indicated that he wished to meet with Buthelezi. He was apparently overruled by hard-liners. Last August, as Buthelezi's followers sought to expand their influence beyond Inkatha's stronghold of Natal, fierce clashes erupted in the black townships around Johannesburg. By the time Mandela finally sat down in an attempt to make peace with Buthelezi last January, more than...
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...
...hard-liners will probably come out on top. Growing increasingly shrill, the A.N.C. issued demands last April that De Klerk was certain to refuse, such as the firing of Defense Minister Magnus Malan and Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok. Though himself a moderate and the movement's peacemaker, Mandela last week sided with hard-liners by flatly declaring as nonnegotiable the A.N.C.'s requirement that an elected constituent assembly, rather than leaders of political parties, draw up a new constitution...