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<text id=93TT1546>
<title>
Apr. 26, 1993: Not the Mourning He Would Have Wanted
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 9
WORLD
Not the Mourning He Would Have Wanted
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<p>Enraged at a leader's death, South African blacks go on a violent
spree
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<p> "What happened in South Africa today," declared President
F.W. de Klerk, "cannot be tolerated in a civilized country." De
Klerk was referring to the violence provoked by the murder of
Chris Hani, the Communist Party leader who was the most popular
of the country's militant blacks. On a day devoted to mourning
Hani, at least five people were killed and hundreds injured as
angry blacks looted stores and battled police.
</p>
<p> That same afternoon, African National Congress president
Nelson Mandela called for discipline and restraint, warning that
further violence could derail negotiations aimed at democratic
reforms and ultimately play into the hands of the murderer (a
Polish immigrant has been accused of the killing). "I understand
your anger," said Mandela, but "we want you to remember that as
a government in waiting, you have the responsibility to behave
orderly and with dignity."
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<p> He also urged his followers to "forget the past" and
reaffirmed his willingness to work with De Klerk "to build a new
South Africa." But on Saturday, two blacks were killed by a
white gunman during a march in Vanderbijlpark, near
Johannesburg. The tragic past threatened to overwhelm a peaceful
future.
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