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A Rush to Settlement in South Africa Could Imperil the Growth of Democracy : Negotiations: A murder and two deaths have raised pressures to compromise. But a new government must be able to end economic inequality.
May 02, 1993|Michael Clough
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In these circumstances, the Clinton Administration, now reviewing the African policies it inherited from George Bush, should become more directly involved in the South African negotiations. Its objective must be: first, to help persuade whites that the best and probably only way to guarantee the future security and welfare of their children and their children's children is to give a new government the freedom and resources necessary to carry out the same kinds of interventionist measures that National Party governments used in the 1940s and 1950s to end poverty among Afrikaners; and, second, to mobilize the international community to make available the resources needed to assist the new government in providing housing, jobs and land to blacks.
To these ends, all remaining economic sanctions should be removed. Sanctions now serve no purpose. Quite the contrary. The linkage between a political settlement and lifting sanctions is almost certainly putting more pressure on the ANC to compromise than on President F.W. de Klerk and whites, because ANC leaders realize that something drastic must be done to fix the economy. Removing the sanctions and lifting restrictions on International Monetary Fund lending to South Africa are critical components of any solution to the country's economic woes. Moreover, there is no longer any doubt that De Klerk needs a settlement.
Those who have urged black leaders to reassure whites by making concessions on power sharing and property rights must realize that it is impossible to lock in effective protections of white welfare in an agreement. For better or worse, the fate of whites will hinge on the ability of a future government to meet the rising expectations of the black majority. If it fails to do so, the security and welfare of all South Africans will be threatened.
Finally, the Clinton Administration must abandon its belief that parts of the world, like South Africa, can be put on hold. The longer it takes to shake U.S. policy toward Africa out of its stupor, the more difficult it's going to be to restore U.S. influence on the continent.
DR, CATHERINE KANNER / For The Times
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