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Article: De Klerk Warns Against Reverse Discrimination In South Africa
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- The New York Beacon
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- November 25, 1994
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Beth J. Harpaz
New York Beacon, The
11-25-1994
De Klerk Warns Against Reverse Discrimination In South Africa.
With South African blacks freed from apartheid, South Africa's new government faces a major challenge in protecting non-blacks from reverse discrimination, says former president F.W. de Klerk.
"How do we manage affirmative action...is one of the biggest challenges we face," he said in Washington Tuesday, using the American term for the practice of giving opportunities to those long disadvantaged by discrimination.
"We dare not fall into a new pattern of institutionalized racial discrimination," said de Klerk, now a deputy vice president of the government of National Unity under ...