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<text id=93TT1200>
<title>
Mar. 15, 1993: Hope and Death
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 17
WORLD
Hope and Death
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<body>
<p>South Africa's negotiations resume, but the bloodshed doesn't
stop
</p>
<p> Dubbed a mere "Planning Conference," the gathering was in
fact historic. When negotiations resumed near Johannesburg after
a 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
lit."
</p>
<p> Yet as before, violence tested the resolve of the
politicians. Gunmen staged a conference-eve attack on a school
bus in Natal province, killing six. Three days later, a similar
cold-blooded ambush there left 10 people dead. What may have
been tit-for-tat murders prompted fears of renewed clashes
between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party supporters.
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</article>
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