ANC Urged to Keep Slovo Out of Talks
President Frederik W. de Klerk asked black leader Nelson Mandela to drop Communist leader Joe Slovo from his team for talks with Pretoria after the state accused Communists in the African National Congress of plotting violence, the ANC said Friday.
The ANC also said De Klerk and Mandela, the ANC’s deputy president, will meet again Aug. 1 after indecisive talks Thursday on the mass arrests of Communists in the ANC. They were accused of stockpiling arms in the event power-sharing talks with the white minority government fail.
De Klerk “expressed preference for the exclusion” of Slovo, leader of the South African Communist Party, from the ANC team due to meet a Cabinet delegation for a second round of talks Aug. 6.
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