De Klerk Asks Ruling Party To Open Rolls to All Races
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President F. W. de Klerk urged today that people of all races be admitted to the governing National Party, which won power more than four decades ago as the racially exclusive guarantor of Afrikaner supremacy. President F. W. de Klerk urged today that people of all races be admitted to the governing National Party, which won power more than four decades ago as the racially exclusive guarantor of Afrikaner supremacy. Mr. de Klerk coupled the policy reversal with an appeal for ”political cooperation across existing party lines” and suggested that the party, as it advances toward negotiations on a new political order in South Africa, would seek new alliances with other political groups as part of ”an inevitable realignment in the party political sphere.” ”The new South Africa demands that those who belong together through inner conviction should come together,” Mr. de Klerk said at a regional party convention in Durban. ”Racism and racial discrimination have had their time in South Africa.” More : query.nytimes.com |