Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.wpost From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: AROUND THE WORLD=ANC Offers Concessions To South African Rivals< Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 10:44:02 EST Message-ID: <41.1992Nov26.104402@AmeriCast.com> Lines: 49 AROUND THE WORLD=ANC Offers Concessions To South African Rivals< JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress yesterday formally accepted the idea of sharing power with South Africa's white, ruling National Party and announced talks "as soon as possible" with its black rival, the Inkatha movement. The ANC relaxed its long-standing demand that a future government be based solely on majority rule and ANC President Nelson Mandela said the group wants an interim government established within 12 months. "Our position is that we want democratic change as soon as possible," Mandela told a news conference in the port of Dur- ban. Mandela will meet Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi to discuss how to end the violence between their groups that has killed thousands of people since the mid-1980s, an ANC official said. The ANC-Inkatha meeting is crucial, because multiparty talks on ending apartheid have virtually no chance of resuming unless the two groups are at peace. Yesterday, more than 30 blacks were injured when unknown attack- ers opened fire at a railway station in the black township of Soweto near Johannesburg, police said.< Chinese Dissident Freed