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Article: South African Negotiations Opposed; Tribal Leadership Group Seeking Boycott of Power-Sharing Talks
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- The Washington Post
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- June 6, 1989
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Tribal chiefs and other traditional black leaders of South Africa
are attempting to organize a united front against white minority rule
and any participation by blacks in power-sharing negotiations until
the country's apartheid system of racial separation has been
dismantled.
The effort is being mounted in direct opposition to an attempt by
the government of President Pieter W. Botha to draw traditional black
leaders into a forum to discuss limited power-sharing for South
Africa's 23-million-member black majority with the country's 4.5
million whites.
So far, however, no prominent black leaders have agreed to take
part in the so-called National Forum, an informal body the government
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