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- <title>
- Apr. 26, 1993: Not the Mourning He Would Have Wanted
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 9
- WORLD
- Not the Mourning He Would Have Wanted
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- <body>
- <p>Enraged at a leader's death, South African blacks go on a violent
- spree
- </p>
- <p> "What happened in South Africa today," declared President
- F.W. de Klerk, "cannot be tolerated in a civilized country." De
- Klerk was referring to the violence provoked by the murder of
- Chris Hani, the Communist Party leader who was the most popular
- of the country's militant blacks. On a day devoted to mourning
- Hani, at least five people were killed and hundreds injured as
- angry blacks looted stores and battled police.
- </p>
- <p> That same afternoon, African National Congress president
- Nelson Mandela called for discipline and restraint, warning that
- further violence could derail negotiations aimed at democratic
- reforms and ultimately play into the hands of the murderer (a
- Polish immigrant has been accused of the killing). "I understand
- your anger," said Mandela, but "we want you to remember that as
- a government in waiting, you have the responsibility to behave
- orderly and with dignity."
- </p>
- <p> He also urged his followers to "forget the past" and
- reaffirmed his willingness to work with De Klerk "to build a new
- South Africa." But on Saturday, two blacks were killed by a
- white gunman during a march in Vanderbijlpark, near
- Johannesburg. The tragic past threatened to overwhelm a peaceful
- future.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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