JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA; President F.W. de Klerk called Sept.9, for urgent talks with Nelson Mandela to halt spiraling violence, warning that reform efforts could not continue until the bloodshed ceased. But de Klerk also lashed out at Mandela’s African National
Congress, claiming that Communists in its leadership were trying to ruin the reform press with violent protests.
It is simply not possible to negotiate constitutional issues before the question of violence has been dealt with satisfactorily,” de Klerk said at news conference in Pretoria.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 25, 1992
