From: vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Vincent A Mazzarella)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: UPI: Vance arrives amidst shootings of police, ANC mass action
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:26:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BrtD4x.KFA
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana



	JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UPI) -- Five policemen were injured by
grenade and gunfire attack Wednesday prior to a meeting between United
Nations special envoy Cyrus Vance and President Frederik de Klerk on
ways to end violence and achieve democracy.
	The five officers were hospitalized with light shrapnel wounds after
they were ambushed while on an early morning patrol of a black township
on the outskirts of Cape Town, a coastal city 900 miles south of
Johannesburg, police spokesman Capt. Attie Laubscher told reporters.
	He said two hand grenades were thrown at the 12-man patrol and shots
were fired by unknown gunmen.
	Police say 117 policemen and women have been killed since the start
of the year in what senior officers have described as mainly politically
motivated killings.
	Speaking at the end of nearly two hours of talks with Vance and four
other U.N. envoys in Pretoria, de Klerk told reporters he had provided
broad view on the violence that has claimed 6,000 lives since the start
of 1990.
	``I used the opportunity to, on the issue of violence and on the
issue of constitutional negotiations, inform Mr. Vance and his
delegation of the government's broad attitudes, points of view and steps
that we have taken, and are taking,'' de Klerk said.
	Meanwhile, police continued to arrest hundreds of anti-apartheid
protesvkrs taking part in the African National Congress's campaign of
demonstrations and sit-ins at government buildings.
	A general strike scheduled to start Aug. 3 is part of intensified
civil disruption aimed at forcing the white minority government to
relinquish power.
	However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and South African
Coordinating Council on Labor Affairs (SACCOLA) were locked in
negotiations Wednesday in an attempt to replace the nationwide strike
with a one-day stayaway sanctioned by local business and trade union
leaders.
	According to the ANC, between 25,000 and 30,000 people have taken
part in marches and sit-ins throughout the nation since Monday, with an
estimated 600 people arrested.
	``The sit-ins are beginning to make an impact, although non-violent
they are challenging the power of the government,'' said ANC
spokesperson Jessie Durate.
	Vance, who did not speak during the brief press conference, and his
four-member delegation were scheduled to meet various cabinet ministers
Wednesday for more detailed discussions.
	He was expected to meet with officials from the ANC and the Inkatha
Freedom Party Thursday, while the government's cabinet ministers are
scheduled to retreat to an undisclosed venue for two days to formulate
new proposals aimed at restarting negotiations, broken on June 23 when
the ANC walked out, charging the government was behind a massacre in a
black area.
	The U.N. delegation also was to meet with religious, business and
trade union organizations during its 10-day mission.
	Vance's appointment as special U.N. envoy to South Africa followed a
two-day debate by the U.N. Security Council that ended with a resolution
urging all parties to resume talks on framing a new constitution that
will grant the right to vote to blacks.

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Vincent Mazzarella
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana
e-mail:  mazz@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu  (Internet)
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