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This chapter examines the negotiation process, which initiated the transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy. This chapter is divided into seven sections, dealing respectively with the main actors, the issues, pre-negotiation talks, the actual negotiations, the final talks, the obstacles encountered during the negotiations, and the outcome.
Exactly how delinquent the ANC was can be seen from the fact that, after almost eighty years as a liberation movement, the organisation first formed a dedicated department of economic policy in 1990, with Trevor Manuel as the head. Consequently, the ANC entered the multiparty negotiations at a severe disadvantage against the ruling National Party’s massive economic capacity, which included both the business community and all the state’s resources.
—William Mervin Gumede, Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
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Notes
David Ottaway, Chained Together: Mandela, De Klerk and the Struggle to Remake South Africa (New York: Times Books, 1993); 88
William Mervin Gumede, Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005)
Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (New York: Public Affairs, 2005)
Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob, Winnie Mandela: A life (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2003)
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Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob, Winnie Mandela: A Life (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2003), 160–61; See also This writer’s personal interview with Dinesh Prashad July 15, 1998.
Harry Gwala cited in R. Mkhondo, Reporting South Africa (London: James Currey, 1993), 162; see also “The Role of the SACP in the Transition to Democracy and Socialism,” African Communist 133 (Second Quarter, 1993)
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E Abdullah, “A Response to Theo Molaba’s letter of Resignation,” African Communist 135 (Fourth Quarter, 1993)
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J. Cronin, “Workers’ Party Plays into Nat Hands,” Weekly Mail, July 23, 1993
C. Louw, “Killing Highlights ANC and NP rifts,” Weekly Mail, April 16–22, 1993.
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wa Muiu, M. (2008). The Negotiations for a Democratic South Africa, 1990–1994. In: The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617278_7
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