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- <text id=93TT1200>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Hope and Death
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- Hope and Death
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>South Africa's negotiations resume, but the bloodshed doesn't
- stop
- </p>
- <p> Dubbed a mere "Planning Conference," the gathering was in
- fact historic. When negotiations resumed near Johannesburg after
- a nine-month deadlock, the meeting included 26 delegates from the
- widest spectrum of antagonists ever put together on South
- African soil. Besides the African National Congress and the
- governing National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters
- as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power
- Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the
- agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on
- constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C.
- secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch of hope has been
- lit."
- </p>
- <p> Yet as before, violence tested the resolve of the
- politicians. Gunmen staged a conference-eve attack on a school
- bus in Natal province, killing six. Three days later, a similar
- cold-blooded ambush there left 10 people dead. What may have
- been tit-for-tat murders prompted fears of renewed clashes
- between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party supporters.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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