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Article: SOUTH AFRICA ANNOUNCES BOLD REFORMS DE KLERK LIFTS BAN ON ANC.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- February 3, 1990
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Byline: Scott Kraft Los Angeles Times
In a landmark speech that shocked both black and white South Africans, President Frederik W. de Klerk on Friday lifted the 30-year ban on the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid groups, sharply scaled back the 3 1/2-year-old state of emergency and announced his "firm decision" to soon release jailed black nationalist Nelson R. Mandela.
De Klerk's sweeping reform initiatives, the most sudden and significant peace offering to the black majority in decades, went most of the way toward reopening political expression in the country and meeting demands made by the ANC as conditions for black-white ...