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- WORLD, Page 45World NotesSOUTH AFRICARenters No More
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- 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.
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- 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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