SOUTH AFRICA : Militant Black Party Suspending Violence

The Pan-Africanist Congress, a militant black party suspected by police of carrying out several high-profile terrorist attacks on whites in the last year, announced that it is suspending its armed struggle. The decision clears the way for the party to take part in South Africa’s first universal suffrage election on April 27, and for its armed wing, the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, to join a 10,000-member, multi-party national peacekeeping force scheduled to begin training later this month. Party President Clarence Makwetu said his organization had made the move “because of our commitment to peace and free and fair elections.”