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- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 67
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- A Zephyr Of Change
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- <body>
- <p> President F.W. de Klerk promised major changes in apartheid
- last week--but not yet in the system's mainstays. The
- reformist politician said he would pursue repeal of the
- Separate Amenities Act, a 1953 law that provides for
- segregation of public facilities. Disappointingly, De Klerk
- pledged reform but not repeal of the laws that define
- residential apartheid, reserve just 13% of the nation's land
- for the black majority, and classify all citizens by race.
- </p>
- <p> The South African leader again rejected the central demand
- of the opposition African National Congress: majority rule on
- the basis of one man, one vote. White power, the President made
- clear, must be protected. Said De Klerk: "Those who enjoy full
- political rights at present are not prepared to bow out
- apologetically from the stage of history."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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