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Title:Negotiated Settlement: Pros and Cons
Author:Meer, FatimaISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:Race and Class
Volume:31
Issue:4
Pages:27-37
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:national liberation movements
peace negotiations
Politics and Government
Ethnic and Race Relations
nationalism
Abstract:Black South Africans always have emphasized the priority of negotiation as the means to constitutional change, which is shown by a number of surveys, conducted in 1985 and 1986. The alternative to negotiation is civil disobedience and/or guerrilla warfare, neither of which has the capacity in itself to overpower the State. All those interested in a negotiated settlement in South Africa, including the Nationalists, are agreed that the existing apartheid society has to be replaced with a nonracial democracy. The ANC, as the other parties involved, has its own guidelines for the new economic and political structure. Compromises are inevitable. The first problem to be solved is to determine the size of a nonracial parliament.