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<text id=93TT1079>
<title>
Mar. 01, 1993: Breakthrough
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 12
WORLD
Breakthrough
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<p>The A.N.C. and the South African government agree to share power
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<p> With more than 3,000 political deaths, 1992 was one of the bloodiest
years in South African history--bloody enough so that the
threat of more violence and economic ruin has finally brought
politicians to their senses. Seven months after negotiations
collapsed, the African National Congress approved a compromise
with President F.W. de Klerk's National Party that would establish
a government with a guaranteed white minority for up to five
years. Says A.N.C. Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa: "This
is the proposal that will break the deadlock."
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<p> If the plan is approved by all major parties when full-scale
negotiations resume in March, the first free elections will
be held by early 1994, when A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela will
probably replace De Klerk as President of South Africa. The
deal, under which the A.N.C. will call for an end to international
sanctions, involves significant concessions from both sides.
A unity government including De Klerk's party would delay pure
majority rule for the A.N.C. until 1999. But De Klerk's party
in turn has abandoned its dream of writing a scheme for permanent
power sharing into the new constitution.
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