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- <title>
- Sep. 16, 1991: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- A Recipe for Disaster?
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- <p> At first glance, President F.W. de Klerk's long-awaited
- proposals for revamping South Africa's constitution, unveiled
- last week, look just fine. But on closer scrutiny some major
- defects appear. The country's blacks would vote for a national
- government for the first time ever. A bicameral parliament would
- consist of one chamber elected by proportional representation
- and a second representing nine newly created regions, with the
- power to veto legislation. The presidency would become a troika
- of representatives of the three major parliamentary parties.
- </p>
- <p> The proposals' checks and balances mean that despite
- universal suffrage, the country's 5 million whites could have
- as much power in government as its 28.5 million blacks. The plan
- would also prevent a black majority from electing a single black
- leader as President. The African National Congress lost no time
- in rejecting the plan as "a recipe for disaster."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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