ANC, Right-Wing S. African Groups Reportedly Talking

Black anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has said his African National Congress is negotiating with right-wing white leaders to persuade them to support South African President Frederik W. de Klerk’s racial reforms, Time magazine reported Sunday.

In an interview in this week’s edition, Time asked Mandela what contacts the ANC has had with the right wing.

“We don’t want to go into those details now because these are very delicate negotiations,” it quoted him as replying.

He also declined to say which groups are involved, saying only, “We are dealing with influential individuals in the right wing.”

Mandela arrived in Ottawa, Canada, from Britain on Sunday to begin a North American tour.

Mandela will meet Prime Minister Brian Mulroney today before addressing a special session of Parliament. He is to travel to Toronto on Tuesday and is to arrive in New York on Wednesday.

In South Africa, police reported that four black police officers and a black youth were killed in unrest incidents.

Authorities said the youth was fatally shot Saturday when police fired on a group of blacks stoning a police vehicle near Stilfontein, about 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg.

The youths were attending one of dozens of rallies held nationwide Saturday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of student uprisings in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg.

Two police officers in Soweto were fatally shot, a third was killed in Katlehong township, southeast of Johannesburg, and the fourth was shot in the northeastern corner of the country, the daily police report on unrest said.