try sources believe that ferry casualties which could have killed 1,000 people in the indian sub-continent have gone unreported.
Welded on Local ferries are often old and ill-maintained. The PhilipBiz, whech sank witty the lor which sank with the loss of 4,400 lives in 1987, was a retired Japanese craft, modified by welding on extra accommolation wit i little regard for stability. It was the worst peace-time shipping disaster More than 400 pilgrims visiting Mecca were killed last year after Salem Express grounded in rough weather, a mere six miles from port.
Even in the west, the free market means skimping of proff. There were 190 dent o safety in the name of from the capsize of P&O's Herald of Free Enterprise and 159 victims following a fire on Baltie Ferry Scandinavian Star.
Feb 27, 1993 *Hen I use a suri, it means eggs ily afar I choose it to mean -nothing Lowis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass AFTER A conference behind closed dOors. the ANC leadership and the National each reement ra agreement for a coalition government to run South Africa until the end of the century.
Since the news became public, Neison Mandela and President De Klerk have been engaged in a about exactly what was agreed.
Do Klerk maintains that a coalition government would power sharins. Mandeonly too aware that this could be interpreted as a sellout, is painfully wriggling to maintain his political credentials with the ANC rank-andThe Ferry Neptune, pictured in November 1991. It sank with over 2000 presumed drowned No. 38 Mandela said he wished eate gorically to deny the statement in the press that the ANC has greed to power-sharing unti he year 1999. An interim gov ernment is not power-sharing.
So there you have it. Humpty Dumpty could not have done better.
Terms
Deputy Fanie Schoeman spelled out the terms of the agreement. Each party that attained a specific minimum support in the country's first all-race elections next year would be included in the government - a body that would double as parliament and constitution-making body.
Schoeman restated De Klerk's interpretation - a government of national unity is power-sharing. Mr Mandela was playing word games'. Buthelezi Whether or not the ANC emerges as the largest party, al. though most likely it will, it will be bed into the coalition gov ernment. It's not a proposal said Schoeman 'It's a fact. We see it as a five-year period, the ANC see it as a five-year period. It will continue to be a government of national unity for a full five years.
it is expected that Inkatha Freedom Party leader Chief Buthelezi will be part of this coalidon, despite nis runous denuncation of the deal. He will find the fruits of office too tempting.
Mandela will not find it easy Harry Gwala, the Natal ANC leader, long ago expressed his dissatisfaction with 04101 process he says.
find this agreement unacceptable. It is a drastic departure from what we have always This is indeed a strange way of appeasement. We are already setting down the rules of surenemy. If we go into negotiader, where do we draw the line?
Differences
The Western Cape leadership also has serious differenwith the national leader. ship: and Alan Boesak's resignation as Chairperson of the regional executive wasonly averted by Mandela's personal intervention.
The ANC seems to have given in to some degree to the government's insistence on regional autonomy, although this will be referred to the constituentassembly. De Klerk wants regional autonomy on such issues as health, education, the police and taxation.
The government also wants the demobilisation of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and the incorporation of its soldiers into the security forces. The question of the overall control of security has also not been settled.
Pushed
There can be no doubt that both the government and the ANC have been pushed into this agreement by the current economic and political instaoility. is chronic and there is a continual flight of capital. Violence remains at record levels.
Both sides have agreed that stability is more important than full-blooded democracy. Whether they can sell this to their respective constituencies remains to be seen.
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