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- <text id=93TT1079>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Breakthrough
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 12
- WORLD
- Breakthrough
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The A.N.C. and the South African government agree to share power
- </p>
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- <p> With more than 3,000 political deaths, 1992 was one of the bloodiest
- years in South African history--bloody enough so that the
- threat of more violence and economic ruin has finally brought
- politicians to their senses. Seven months after negotiations
- collapsed, the African National Congress approved a compromise
- with President F.W. de Klerk's National Party that would establish
- a government with a guaranteed white minority for up to five
- years. Says A.N.C. Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa: "This
- is the proposal that will break the deadlock."
- </p>
- <p> If the plan is approved by all major parties when full-scale
- negotiations resume in March, the first free elections will
- be held by early 1994, when A.N.C. leader Nelson Mandela will
- probably replace De Klerk as President of South Africa. The
- deal, under which the A.N.C. will call for an end to international
- sanctions, involves significant concessions from both sides.
- A unity government including De Klerk's party would delay pure
- majority rule for the A.N.C. until 1999. But De Klerk's party
- in turn has abandoned its dream of writing a scheme for permanent
- power sharing into the new constitution.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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