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<text id=91TT1652>
<title>
July 29, 1991: World Notes:South Africa
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
SOUTH AFRICA
Campaigning Under Cover
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<p> The African National Congress has repeatedly accused Pretoria
of working hand in glove with its bitter rival in black politics,
the Inkatha Freedom Party, headed by Zulu chief Mangosuthu
Buthelezi. President F.W. de Klerk always denied improper
favoritism, but last week he was forced to admit that the
government had given covert funds to Inkatha in 1989 and '90 to
organize political rallies. A police spokesman said Buthelezi
got the aid because he opposed international sanctions against
South Africa.
</p>
<p> De Klerk came clean after the Johannesburg Weekly Mail
exposed the secret $90,000 subsidy in a front-page story based
on official documents. The report also raised doubts about the
government's denials that security forces aided Inkatha's armed
attacks on A.N.C. supporters.
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
</body></article>
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