South Africa Drops `Group Rights' Idea As Shield for Whites

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 5, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

A senior South African official said today that the white minority will have to depend on a bill of individual rights, strong regional governments and political parties rather than race-based groups to defend its interests in a new political order here.

Outlining the latest government thinking about protection of "minority rights" under black majority rule, Roelf Meyer, the deputy constitutional minister, said the government has given up the notion of demanding recognition of "group rights" based on race or color "in any form whatsoever."

He said the government instead was looking at ...

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