Great black hope. (F.W. de Klerk of South Africa) (editorial) (Cover Story)

The Economist (US) | February 29, 1992 | Copyright

Is he Gorbachev or de Gaulle? The parallels between F.W. de Klerk and those two great reformers-who-came-unstuck seem horribly close. All those who want a peaceful and democratic future for South Africa must hope that appearances deceive, and that Mr de Klerk will turn out to be neither.

It was the collapse of communism in 1989 that persuaded Mr de Klerk to send his country hurtling down the road to reform. Al overnight, it seems, the African National Congress ceased in his mind to be a terrorist organisation controlled by the Kremlin; equally suddenly, democracy ...

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