What the ANC Is Demanding
Here is a list of demands the African National Congress made to the government Tuesday when it broke off negotiations on political reforms:
* Establishment of an international commission to investigate township violence, and an international team to monitor violence.
* Creation of a constituent assembly to draft and adopt a new constitution ending white-minority rule.
* Establishment of an interim government to oversee the transition to multiracial democracy.
* Termination of all covert activities by police and military.
* Suspension and prosecution of soldiers and police involved in political violence.
* Halt to repression in the nominally independent black homelands (The statement did not elaborate).
* Replacement of all-male workers’ hostels, often implicated in violence, with family units.
* Increased scrutiny of hostels, including guards on 24-hour duty and regular searches of dwellings.
* Banning of all dangerous weapons in public, including so-called cultural weapons such as spears and shields.
* Release of all political prisoners.
* Repeal of all “repressive” legislation. (The statement did not elaborate).
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