JOHANNESBURG : Tests for De Klerk
South Africa’s four-year-old state of emergency expires next Monday, and there is speculation it either will not be renewed or will be extended in sharply curtailed form. Either option would presumably help pave the way for negotiations with the African National Congress.
Meanwhile, voters in the coastal town of Umlazi, near Durban, go to the polls to fill a vacant seat in Parliament in what amounts to the first referendum on President Frederik W. de Klerk’s reforms since last September’s general elections brought his ruling National Party back into power.
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