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- <title>
- Jan. 22, 1990: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 22, 1990 A Murder In Boston
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Any Week Now, Really
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When Winnie Mandela appeared after a visit to her husband
- at the Victor Verster prison farm near Cape Town last week, she
- was radiant and smiling. For the first time Nelson Mandela had
- talked about making arrangements for his homecoming. According
- to family lawyer Dullah Omar, the black nationalist leader who
- has been imprisoned since 1962 was "buoyant, confident and
- raring to go."
- </p>
- <p> While no date is set for Mandela's freedom, President F.W.
- de Klerk is almost certain to let him go within the next few
- weeks, possibly during the opening session of the South African
- parliament in early February. Mandela's release could be
- followed by the unbanning of the African National Congress, the
- liberation of political detainees and the return of A.N.C.
- exiles to South Africa, helping prepare the way for a
- round-table conference to discuss a new constitution that will
- finally give blacks the vote.
- </p>
- <p> Those actions will depend on the behavior of Mandela and the
- A.N.C. In its 78th anniversary message from Lusaka last week,
- the A.N.C. urged an intensification of the armed struggle
- against the South African government. Privately, however,
- A.N.C. officials admitted that they had reduced their military
- operations and that if De Klerk delivered a reasonable package
- of reforms, they would be prepared to talk about talks.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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