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- <text id=91TT0601>
- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: World Notes:South Africa
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Renters No More
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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