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<text id=91TT0601>
<title>
Mar. 25, 1991: World Notes:South Africa
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
SOUTH AFRICA
Renters No More
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<p> For decades, South Africa's policy of apartheid has rested
upon a set of rigid laws reserving 87% of the land for the
nation's white minority and requiring strict housing
segregation. Last week President F.W. de Klerk introduced
legislation that would repeal all racial restrictions on land
ownership and permit all South Africans to live where they
choose.
</p>
<p> The right-wing Conservative Party accused the government of
having "capitulated" even before it began negotiations with the
black African National Congress on the country's future. The
Congress, for its part, blasted the program for failing to
compensate blacks who lost their land and for codifying "the
current state of the dispossessed under the cover of
free-market principles." Most white South Africans, though,
seemed to support the new policy, believing it will lead to the
lifting of international economic sanctions against their
country.
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