SOUTH AFRICA: EXTREME RIGHT-WING STAGES PROTEST AGAINST DE KLERK'S REFORMS/MANDELA RECEIVES VISITORS AT HIS SOWETO HOME
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SOUTH AFRICA: EXTREME RIGHT-WING STAGES PROTEST AGAINST DE KLERK'S REFORMS/MANDELA RECEIVES VISITORS AT HIS SOWETO HOME
- Title: SOUTH AFRICA: EXTREME RIGHT-WING STAGES PROTEST AGAINST DE KLERK'S REFORMS/MANDELA RECEIVES VISITORS AT HIS SOWETO HOME
- Date: 15th February 1990
- Summary: SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA (FEBRUARY 15, 1990) (GAVIN J.R.) GV STUDENTS AND OTHERS STANDING IN FRONT OF MANDELA'S HOME 1.29 CU, GV, MANDELA SPEAKING TO WHITE STUDENTS (ENGLISH SOT) "I SINCERELY HOPE THAT IN FUTURE WE ARE GOING TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE SITUATION OF CONFLICT AND CONFRONTATION TO THAT OF PEACEFUL NEGOTIATIONS. IF THAT PROCESS SUCCEEDS YOU MUST KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MADE A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION. AND WITH THESE WORDS I WANT TO THANK YOU AND I LOVE YOU AS MUCH AS I LOVE MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN." (2 SHOTS) 1.54 SV ZOOM OUT MANDELA SPEAKS AND STUDENTS SALUTE 2.11
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- Location: South Africa, South Africa
- Country: South Africa
- Topics: General,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA5JNUP2SCTCPCWAOS7Q3N15BLO
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Story Text: SOWETO AND PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Thousands of whites from South Africa's extreme right-wing marched through the streets of Pretoria on Thursday (February 15) to protest against the government's reforms, which they see as "giving in to Communists."
Members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaaner Resistance Movement (AWB) joined with the Conservative Party in shouting slogans, waving banners supporting apartheid and holding up an effigy of a bloodstained black person.
President F.W. de Klerk's bid to start negotiations with the black majority by releasing Nelson Mandela and lifting a 30-year ban on the ANC have infuriated white supremacists and sparked fears of a violent backlash.
Mandela, enjoying his fifth day of freedom after 27 years in prison, spent the day receiving visitors, including leading United States civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson, at his home in the black township of Soweto.
Jackson noted that the 71-year-old ANC leader was not really free in every sense of the word. "Mr Mandela is out off jail but he is not free," Jackson said. "Lech Walesa is free; he is free to live anywhere in Poland, to go to school any place in Poland, free to vote and run for office in Poland. So these headlines across the world - 'Nelson Mandela is free' - are a misnomer. He is out of jail, he is not free."
Mandela later received a group of white students from the University of Witwatersrand. He thanked them for their support in the struggle against apartheid and said he loved them as much as he loved his children and grandchildren. They responded: "We love you too."
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