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- <text id=89TT2229>
- <title>
- Aug. 28, 1989: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 27
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Are Only the Initials New?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Trailing King Lear-like complaints of being ignored,
- President P.W. Botha, 73, resigned last week. National Party
- leader F.W. de Klerk was named acting President by the Cabinet
- until next month's parliamentary elections can formalize the
- succession. The question is whether this change will make a
- difference.
- </p>
- <p> None at all, sniffed Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "It
- is just a change of initials from P.W. to F.W.," said the Nobel
- laureate. Other black leaders took the same view, noting that
- while De Klerk talks of dismantling apartheid, he supports
- segregation in housing, education and politics.
- </p>
- <p> De Klerk insisted that the country was on the "threshold of
- a new era" and announced he would meet on Aug. 28 with Zambian
- President Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda is expected to press De Klerk
- to negotiate with the outlawed African National Congress.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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