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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesSOUTH AFRICACampaigning Under Cover
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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